init_special_inode: bogus i_mode

[Albert Sellarès]

Hi everyone,

I have a server running Redhat 5 that have attached a SAN of 5TB. The
SAN filesystem is formated with ext3.

One month ago, the kernel was started to send this error messages:

init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (56333)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (111367)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (114022)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (34016)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (7170)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (117576)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (74600)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (111237)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (151624)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (132565)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (175003)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (54343)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (161626)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (114644)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (53215)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (54563)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (110115)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (160572)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (35607)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (156516)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (50005)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (5362)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (136237)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (136237)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (136237)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (136237)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (136237)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (136237)

Every day, kernel prints out one or two lines like these.

I haven't found nothing in the list archives, and searching in google I
found that it could be that the filesystem is corrupted.

On my last step to know what has happening in the filesystem, I have
look the kernel source code. Now I really think that it is an error, but
I'm not sure what it means.

Can anybody tell me what exactly means this message?

Thanks you very much.

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