[Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: e2fsprogs

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Thu May 3 00:00:47 CEST 2012


'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 <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> 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


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