Re: [2.5.69] ext3 error: rec_len %% 4 != 0

Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de)
Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:59:11 +0200


Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> I see the following messages with dmesg, but they appear to be
> non-critical:
>
> init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (67)
> init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (177766)
> init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (5)
> init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (65)
> init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (53664)
> init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (5)
>
> Are they related? They didn't appear with ext3.

Some more data points:

o 2.5.70 fails as well.

o ext2 on 2.5.70, too.

o Above errors are definitely critical. 8-(

o It seems as if the kernel assumes that a file is a directory. (At
least after running 2.5.70/ext2 for a while, e2fsck had some
problems regenerating a proper file system structure and marked a
few files as directories.)

o Vanilla 2.4.20 is rock solid on the same hardware (no more file
system corruption after downgrade).
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