Description of problem:

The kernel is reporting "No space for directory leaf checksum. Please run e2fsck -D." for multiple filesystems, but 'e2fsck -D' is unable to correct the error.

As a result, the contents problematic directory is completely inaccessible; no file can be opened or removed. The end result is the data loss of all files in the directory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

e2fsprogs-1.45.6-5.el8.x86_64
more recent Fedora e2fsprogs-1.46.5-3.fc37 is also unable to correct

How reproducible:

Unknown, however the customer has 4 filesystems on one system which are all reporting the error.

Steps to Reproduce:

unknown

Actual results:

'e2fsck -D' is unable to correct the error

Expected results:

'e2fsck -D' corrects the error, as described in the kernel error message

Additional info:

All of the customer's filesystems have a blocksize of 1024 bytes, which seems likely to be contributing to the issue.