There are many EXT4 filesystem errors reported during a filesystem check in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Issue

• What is the cause of these ext4 filesystem errors, reported during a filesystem check (fsck):

  EXT4-fs error (device dm-3): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #188917: rec_len is smaller than minimal - block=948151offset=0(0), inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
  
  EXT4-fs error (device dm-3): ext4_readdir: bad entry in directory #183962: rec_len is smaller than minimal - block=949105offset=0(0), inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
  
  EXT4-fs error (device dm-3): ext4_ext_get_blocks: inode #164908: (comm dsmc) bad extent address iblock: 0, depth: 1 pblock 0