Problem with RH kernel 2.4.7-6

[Adam Huffman <bloch verdurin com>]

This morning, I had just booted my laptop and gone off to do something
else.  When I came back, the console was being filled with errors like
this:

Oct 17 08:05:53  kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Oct 17 08:05:53  kernel: 03:03: rw=0, want=702921096,
limit=9237375
Oct 17 08:05:53  kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,3)):
ext3_readdir: directory #165601 contains a hole at offset 0

This is the root filesystem, which needed a manual fsck on reboot,
leading to some file contents going to /lost+found.

Hardware is a Dell Latitude C800, PIII 1GHz, 384MB, 20GB IBM hd, running
RedHat Roswell2.

Adam