Hello all,
Does anyone know if the following is likely to be a software problem or a
hardware fault?
Oct 22 14:01:43 cyrus-26 kernel:
EXT3-fs error (device md0): htree_dirblock_to_tree:
bad entry in directory #360809233: rec_len is
smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
A quick Google didn't tell me much, although a couple of people seem to
have seen similar problems after hardware problems, and one person seemed
to be able to trigger it using an "insane file system test":
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ext4 at vger.kernel.org/msg02515.html
The filesystem in question is a Cyrus mailstore: lots of write (and fsync)
activity with small files. It was created with:
mkfs.ext3 -T news -m 1 -O dir_index -j -J size=256 /dev/md0
and is currently mounted data=ordered. Platform is SLES10.
We haven't seen one of these before, but we are in the process of moving
from reiser (which never did anything like this) to ext3/htree, so it
would be useful to known if it is a known problem. Thanks.
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