[OpenAFS] Volume Creation Date Nonsense

Christof Hanke hanke@rzg.mpg.de
Mon, 14 May 2007 20:10:18 +0300


John Hascall wrote:
> So, excluding time travel, what might cause this:
> 
> # vos create afs-5.iastate.edu /vicepc blah.de.blah
> # vos exam blah.de.blah
> blah.de.blah                      538247009 RW          2 K  On-line
>     afs-5.iastate.edu /vicepc 
>     RWrite  538247009 ROnly          0 Backup          0 
>     MaxQuota       5000 K 
>     Creation    Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
>     Last Update Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
>     1 accesses in the past day (i.e., vnode references)
> 

Well,

if you are in time-zone -6h, then this date is Epoch 0 (the beginning of
unix-time).
Thus the creation-time is basically not properly set and has still the
initialization time 0.
Why this happens at your, I don't know.

Christof