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|    Mike Scott to All    |
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|    04 Dec 25 11:42:09    |
      From: usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid              Hmmm.              Checking over things, I found some old files with dates in the future.       One directory lists as:              CD> ls -li       total 36       3671727 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mike mike 1230 Oct 16 2018 cd1.k3b       3671728 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mike mike 1160 Oct 16 2018 cd1.k3b.files       3671729 -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 137 Oct 16 2018 k3b2list.sh       3671730 -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 17873 Feb 7 2106 maindata.xml       3671731 -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 17 Feb 7 2106 mimetype                     Note the future dates for the last two. This stuff has been left around       since 2018, unmodified (by me, at least). The contents look reasonable,       so it's just the metadata messed up - they seem to be the only two files       affected.              The data was on a freebsd machine until a few weeks ago, when the whole       lot was rsync'd from spinning rust to the present SSD on a mint server.              A bit worrying: freebsd failure? rsync failure? SSD failure? linux       failure? Gremlins?              But how can anyone possibly realistically detect this sort of thing?       With an unknown cause?                     --       Mike Scott       Harlow, England              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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