Re: e2fsck bogus error report on orphan-list

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Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:39:19AM +0900, Ryoichi.Kato@xxxxxxxxxxx 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

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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