Why does the ext3 filesystems on my Storage Area Network (SAN) repeatedly become read-only?

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Issue

  • Ext3 filesystem on SAN devices goes into readonly mode repeatedly.

  • 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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