[Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: e2fsprogs

Thu May 3 12:56:39 CEST 2012

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
+