unexpected softupdate inconsistency

[Manfred Lotz]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:39:07 +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> 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.).

Thanks, I'll have my eye on it.  Unpleasant situation anyhow.


-- 
Manfred