linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsck bogus error report on orphan-list

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Message-ID: <469FD228.9070908@am.sony.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:05:44 -0700
From:	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Ryoichi.Kato@...sony.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	sct@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, adilger@...sterfs.com
Subject: Re: e2fsck bogus error report on orphan-list

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

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