System commands on filesystems return Input/output error

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Issue

The command ls -l returns I/O errors for some files, while a plain ls works:

ls -l /usr/lib64/perl5/GSSAPI/OID.pm
ls: /usr/lib64/perl5/GSSAPI/OID.pm: Input/output error
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2341 Feb  2  2008 /usr/lib64/perl5/GSSAPI/OID.pm

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, prior to 6.2

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