Am 22.03.2017 um 09:50 schrieb Stefan Bruens:
> On Mittwoch, 22. März 2017 08:43:43 CET Per Jessen wrote:
>> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> On 20/03/2017 16:11, Eric Curtin wrote:
>>>> Yeah "iburst" was all that this needed. It's perfect for my needs at
>>>> least. Haven't seen anything like that in my dracut scripts either.
>>>> Similar to Per, I may not be looking for the right thing.
>>>
>>> I can't find it anymore either. Odd.
>>>
>>> So historically we used to have a hack that set the system time to the
>>>
>>> initrd build time if it was bogus:
>>> https://github.com/openSUSE/mkinitrd/blob/ad190ad24a9f3881afa11c47aecc8625b
>>> 286d0d4/scripts/boot-start.sh#L210>
>>> That got removed with the transition to dracut and I seem to remember
>>> that the hack we then added was to take the last mounted time from
>>> your / file system and apply that as system time. But I agree that I
>>> can't find any reference to it.
>>>
>>> I'm surprised any of the non-RTC ARM systems boot at all then - ext3
>>> used to complain really loudly if the last mount time was newer than
>>> the system time.
>>
>> I've just had to reboot my nanopi, it came up with "2017-01-10
>> 11:53:57".  In dmesg, the built-in rtc reports
>>
>> [    6.965339] sun6i-rtc 1f00000.rtc: setting system clock to 1970-01-01
>> 00:00:13 UTC (13)
>>
>> Looking at the root file system:
>>
>> # tune2fs -l /dev/mmcblk0p2
>> tune2fs 1.43.3 (04-Sep-2016)
>> Filesystem volume name:   ROOT
>> Last mounted on:          /
>> [snip]
>> Filesystem created:       Thu Jan 19 04:00:24 2017
>> Last mount time:          Tue Jan 10 11:54:03 2017
>> Last write time:          Tue Jan 10 11:53:59 2017
>> Mount count:              57
>> Maximum mount count:      -1
>> Last checked:             Tue Mar  7 21:59:21 2017
>>
>> So, something did set the time?  I mean, that timestamp from 2017/01/10
>> must come from somewhere?
> 
> If you only reboot, i.e. keep the power supply connected, the RTC does its 
> job. It is not battery backed, but still an RTC.

Wouldn't it have printed something other than 1970 above then?

Regards,
Andreas

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