unexpected softupdate inconsistency

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:23, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:21:30 +1000
>
> Mark Sergeant <msergeant at snsonline.net> wrote:
> > In situations like this it can be useful to use vim on the dir entry
> > that is affected and remove the invalid filenames. This has worked for
> > me before.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
>
> Thanks for the reply. Have to admit that it would have never occured to
> me to do this. Good idea.
>
> Did you experience this often? I'm worried. Never had something like
> this before.

You should watch that system - filesystems going bad out of the blue are 
usually a warning sign of failing hardware (though not necessarily the hdd 
itself, might be power issues, bad memory, etc.).

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