'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 27/04/12 16:32 did gyre and gimble: > 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 27/04/12 15:19 did gyre and gimble: >> On 27 April 2012 15:23, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As per discussions earlier, can you please push e2fsprogs. >> >> Er there hasn't been much discussion! >> >>> It adds a default config to prevent fsck when system clock and hwclock >>> are out of sync. >> >> What's more, from what I remember from reading the e2fsprogs many years ago, >> that was added only for ubuntu installer where date setting was wrong, >> resulting in a date differenence on booting the newly installed system >> and thus forcing a fsck. >> >> This doesn't affect us since our installer forbid fsck based on too big >> elapsed time since last check. >> >> What's more it cannot happen "when system clock and hwclock >> are out of sync" for the same reason. >> >> As it doesn't fix any real bug, I suggests postponing this to mga3. > > Well, it's does not directly related to a bug but it is in some way > related to: > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3817 > > As I mentioned in my original mail, as the hwclock is not clobbered on > shutdown with whatever random value we have in the system clock, we need > to be more tolerant of errors in time offsets. > > If the user runs ntpd and doesn't drift too much then the RTC will be > sync'ed every 11 minutes by the kernel. If the drift is too high, or the > user does not run ntpd, then there will be no system clock to hwclock > sync as we simply don't have enough info to know we're correct. > > This patch will avoid any fallout from this. > > So I think it's likely still important to have in mga2. > > Some more info: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/4943 > > Col
Ping? Any revised opinions? Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
