Why does the ext3 filesystems on my Storage Area Network (SAN) repeatedly become read-only?
Issue
- Ext3 filesystem on SAN devices goes into readonly mode repeatedly.
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Log files shows following error messages :
kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-14): ext3_readdir: directory #2 contains a hole at offset 0 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-14): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #2 offset 0 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-14): ext3_readdir: directory #2 contains a hole at offset 0 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-14): ext3_readdir: directory #2 contains a hole at offset 0
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 or lower
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