On 26/07/2017 19:05, Colin Percival wrote: > It means that tarsnap archived a file which was (allegedly) most recently > modified before January 1st 1970. Why you have such a file is an open > question, but it seems that these are more common than I expected; you're > not the first person to trip over this (the assertion is new in 1.0.38). Hmmm... the oldest files in the zfs where the abort trap occurred date back to 2007. However it does seem pkg(8) fills up /var/cache/pkg with files mostly dated at the epoch, but with a few like this: # ls -la /var/cache/pkg/p5-File-Remove-1.57-e824064549.txz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16628 Nov 26 -8917616 /var/cache/pkg/p5-File-Remove-1.57-e824064549.txz Quite why that perl module should date from 8 million years BCE I couldn't say. There's also one pkg apparently from the year 3605. Hmmm... Of course, this is a bit irrelevant here as I'm not backing up /var/cache/pkg to tarsnap. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman 1 Newland St, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, 0X29 4LB
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