EXT4 Filesystem has error "ext4_iget:4390: inode=xxxx" in the messages

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Found error logs from /var/log/messages
kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-30): error count since last fsck: 32
kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-30): initial error at time 1586743518: ext4_iget:4390: inode xxxx
kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-30): last error at time 1586743518: ext4_iget:4390: inode xxxx
kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-30): error count since last fsck: 32
kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-30): initial error at time 1586743518: ext4_iget:4390: inode xxxx
kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-30): last error at time 1586743518: ext4_iget:4390: inode xxxx
kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-30): ext4_iget:4390: inode #xxxx: comm rm: bad extra_isize (9894 != 256)
kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-30): ext4_iget:4390: inode #xxxx: comm rm: bad extra_isize (9894 != 256)
kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-30): ext4_iget:4390: inode #xxxx: comm rm: bad extra_isize (9894 != 256)
kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-30): ext4_iget:4390: inode #xxxx: comm rm: bad extra_isize (9894 != 256)
  • ls returns input/output error as below
$ ls file.log
ls: cannot access file.log: Input/output error
..
Total 0
-????????? ? ? ? ?             ? file.log

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Ext4 filesystem

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