ext2 corruption (again)

Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Wed, 27 May 1998 22:23:55 -0400


I am using kernel 2.1.96, and it seems that every time I delete the
linux source tree and unpack it again, something gets corrupted. I just
got these errors while trying to cd to /usr/src/linux/net:

May 27 22:15:51 citadel kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:03):
ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #22750: rec_len % 4 != 0
- offset=0, inode=68583860, rec_len=9431, name_len=0
May 27 22:15:51 citadel kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:03):
ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #22750: rec_len % 4 !=
0 - offset=0, inode=68583860, rec_len=9431, name_len=0
May 27 22:15:51 citadel kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:03):
ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #22750: rec_len % 4 !=
0 - offset=0, inode=68583860, rec_len=9431, name_len=0
May 27 22:20:20 citadel kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:03):
ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #22750: rec_len % 4 != 0
- offset=0, inode=68583860, rec_len=9431, name_len=0

Any ideas what could be causing this? It seems to be related to doing
mass deletions. Any help would be appreciated, as this is driving me
nuts.

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Brian Gerst

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