> I have sent a similar message before, but since I have tried out a couple
> of more kernels I thought that I would just point out that this behavior
> persists. In the newer kernels I get kernel panics when using the ZIP
> drive. I am including exerpts from my log files since they are the closest
> thing I have to debugging information. Notice :
> ==> EXT2-fs error (device 08:04): ext2_readdir: directory #2 contains a
> ==> hole at offset 0
> I believe someone else sent mail about a similar problem.
Such errors are generally not related to ext2 structure problems, but
may be due to disk read errors that have not been recovered.
When ext2-fs search in a directory, it tries to read ahead asynchronously
severall directory blocks.
If an unrecovered IO error occurs on such a block, ext2 dir code then
sees a hole, but it is just an IO hole. :)
-- Gerard.