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Re: Inodes date in future - problem



David Dawson wrote:

> Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athlon 2100+ ECS motherboard with 3 hard
> disks, the 40 G original hard disk was showing inodes date in future on a
> user forced fsck.
> The reason the user forced the fsck was because of a system sluggishness
> he suspected problems and rebooted with a forced fsck.
> 
> I have installed etch on another of his hard disks and moved over his home
> directory to the new disk.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what would have put inodes dates in the future on
> this drive only and would this have caused a disk slowdown? It wouldn't be
> swap issues, I think, since the machine has 2G of RAM.
> 
> Thanks
IN ANSWER TO THE POSTERS:

-It has not lately been booted from a CD I can rule that out.
-I think these might have been spurious errors at that.
-Possibly the problem was with udevd and may now have (touch wood) been   
corrected by dpkg-reconfigure.
-I am doing a snapshot of the process stack every 5 minutes and logging, so
that I can capture the process that is doing the resource-hogging which
caused the user to want to re-boot his machine (I suspect something was
going wrong with an X app and really all he needed to do was kill the app)

-Thanks!
-- 
If you wrestle in the mud with a pig.
you both get dirty, and the pig likes it.

-- Dave Dawson



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