EXT2 filesystem reports error: ext2_xattr_get: inode 17514526: bad block 34988032
Issue
- User fail to access files
- On zLinux server users intermittently can not access files.
- Each of 3 separate instances seem to give different sets of error messages:
Oct 14 18:19:59 hostname kernel: EXT2-fs error (device dm-10): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #4522004: unaligned directory entry - offset=0, inode=4026531904, rec_len=170, name_len=7
Oct 14 18:19:59 hostname kernel: EXT2-fs error (device dm-10): ext2_readdir: bad page in #4522004
Sep 20 14:08:54 hostname kernel: EXT2-fs error (device dm-10): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 2232320
Aug 30 10:31:24 hostname kernel: EXT2-fs error (device dm-10): ext2_xattr_get: inode 17514526: bad block 34988032
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Seen in RHEL 5.8(kernel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el), and RHEL 5.9
- EXT2 and EXT3 file systems
- Filesystem does not exceed 2TB
- RHEL virtual guest running on a zVM Virtual host
- 10s of other zLinux servers residing on the same LPAR do not see the issue
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