Re: Ext3 errors with 2.4.18

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:25:30PM +0200, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> With Linux 2.4.18, I'm getting multiple of the following error:
> 
> EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #1966094:
> rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=3180611420, rec_len=53134, name_len=138
> 
> Can someone decipher this?

Can you post the surrounding lines from dmesg?  Many times there is another
error that tells much more than the one you just posted...