[Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: e2fsprogs

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 3 May 2012 12:50, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>> Sorry, but I feel this is not needed for MGA2. In fact, systemd has
>> changed the shutdown behaviour. The good patch would be to make him sync
>> the hwclock at shutdown, as we have no bugs because of this sysvinit
>> behaviour.
>
> There are real problems related to this as described upstream. Without a
> proper ntp implementation doing the time sync we have *no* idea that
> what we are doing is correct. If this is a dual boot system we could be
> clobbering the RTC without any knowledge that what we are doing is
> vaguely valid. So no, I will not entertain adding the sync hwclock stuff
> back. That is broken. What is also broken is that e2fsk uses the time as
> anything to complain about. None of the other fsck implementations do
> this AFAIK.
>
> So I stand by my original assertion that the change is valid and should
> be included.

I stand to my position: it doesn't fix any issue on Mageia.
You don't have any bug report to prove the contraty.
You I doubt you can find one since we make the Drakx
installer prevent fsck to use time or mount count to
cause a fsck (at least on journalized systems) for years