From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ryoichi.Kato@jp.sony.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
sct@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, adilger@clusterfs.com
Subject: Re: e2fsck bogus error report on orphan-list
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:05:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469FD228.9070908@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070719165510.GB14815@thunk.org>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:39:19AM +0900, Ryoichi.Kato@jp.sony.com wrote:
>> The following sequence produces bogus e2fsck error report:
>> "/dev/XXX: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found."
>>
>> 1. Delete a file in an ext3 filesystem in early 1970
>
> Dare I ask *why* the system clock was set in the 1970's? Umm... don't
> do that.
It is not uncommon for embedded boards to omit battery backing
on the RTC, so they always boot with a bogus (start-of-epoch) time.
-- Tim
=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-19 15:39 e2fsck bogus error report on orphan-list Ryoichi.Kato
2007-07-19 16:55 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-19 21:05 ` Tim Bird [this message]
2007-07-19 23:20 ` Ryoichi KATO
2007-07-20 4:10 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-20 9:45 ` Ryoichi KATO
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