Filesystem errors "EXT4-fs error (device md0): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #XXXXXXXX"
Issue
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The following filesystem errors are seen in `/var/log/messages:
May 3 22:45:03 test kernel: EXT4-fs error (device md0): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #96469198: directory entry across blocks - block=385884226offset=0(32768), inode=2723306230, rec_len=206956, name_len=59 May 3 22:45:03 test kernel: EXT4-fs error (device md0): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #96469198: directory entry across blocks - block=385884231offset=0(53248), inode=1619960990, rec_len=30104, name_len=34 May 3 22:45:03 test kernel: EXT4-fs error (device md0): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #96469198: directory entry across blocks - block=385884232offset=0(57344), inode=1060647885, rec_len=220636, name_len=215 May 3 22:45:03 test kernel: EXT4-fs error (device md0): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #96469198: directory entry across blocks - block=385884228offset=0(40960), inode=3457969632, rec_len=54408, name_len=246 May 3 22:45:03 test kernel: EXT4-fs error (device md0): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #96469198: directory entry across blocks - block=385884230offset=0(49152), inode=2002298854, rec_len=251288, name_len=106
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6+
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- ext4 filesystem
- kernel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 or newer
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