Re: puzzling error message

[Andreas Dilger <adilger turbolabs com>]

On Jan 06, 2002  22:43 +0000, Matthew Dickinson wrote:
> whilst updatedb was running, i had these messages appear...
> 
> Jan  6 22:18:42 jaguar kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): 
> ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #147553: rec_len %% 4 != 0 - 
> offset=0, inode=1651076143, rec_len=19527, name_len=85

Hmm, this looks like data being written into a directory block:

1651076143 = 0x62696c2f = "/lib"
19527 = 0x4c47 = GL
85 = 0x55 = U

Cheers, Andreas
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