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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-April/014955.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-April/014955.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2b47c62d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-April/014955.html @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: e2fsprogs + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Freeze%20Push%3A%20e2fsprogs&In-Reply-To=%3C4F9ABC08.8080407%40colin.guthr.ie%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="014950.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="014949.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: e2fsprogs</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Freeze%20Push%3A%20e2fsprogs&In-Reply-To=%3C4F9ABC08.8080407%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: e2fsprogs">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Fri Apr 27 17:32:24 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="014950.html">[Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: e2fsprogs +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="014949.html">[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: oxygen-icon-theme +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#14955">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#14955">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#14955">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#14955">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 27/04/12 15:19 did gyre and gimble: +><i> On 27 April 2012 15:23, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote: +</I>>><i> Hi, +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> As per discussions earlier, can you please push e2fsprogs. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Er there hasn't been much discussion! +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> It adds a default config to prevent fsck when system clock and hwclock +</I>>><i> are out of sync. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> What's more, from what I remember from reading the e2fsprogs many years ago, +</I>><i> that was added only for ubuntu installer where date setting was wrong, +</I>><i> resulting in a date differenence on booting the newly installed system +</I>><i> and thus forcing a fsck. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This doesn't affect us since our installer forbid fsck based on too big +</I>><i> elapsed time since last check. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> What's more it cannot happen "when system clock and hwclock +</I>><i> are out of sync" for the same reason. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As it doesn't fix any real bug, I suggests postponing this to mga3. +</I> +Well, it's does not directly related to a bug but it is in some way +related to: +<A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3817">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3817</A> + +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: +<A HREF="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/4943">http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/4943</A> + +Col + + + + + + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="014950.html">[Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: e2fsprogs +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="014949.html">[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: oxygen-icon-theme +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#14955">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#14955">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#14955">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#14955">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |