Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

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On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 19:13 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 15:49 (UTC-0700):
> 
> > We seem to have two sides saying two fundamentally different things
> > here: one claiming that all Windows/Fedora multiboot systems (that
> > haven't had the hardware clock set to UTC and Windows adjusted to 
> > know
> > about that) are doing fsck on boot all the time, one claiming that
> > "This only trips you up if you combine two known broken settings".
> 
> > Who's correct? It seems like we should at least be able to 
> > reasonably
> > establish that.
> 
> All my Fedora 21/22/23 (20+) installations are on multiboot PCs with 
> RTC set
> to local, and /etc/adjtime set to LOCAL. I can't recall if any are 
> *not* now
> taking 3 minutes or more to boot due to fsck delays that were not 
> occurring
> as recently as 3-4 months ago. Maybe kernel 3.18.3 or so was good, 
> 3.19rc
> started the fsck delays? Cauldron and Tumbleweed booting 3.19.4 
> kernels on
> same PCs are not producing any similar delays, some booting in under 
> 40s
> without benefit of SSD or more than 2 cores.

I'd prefer objective analysis over anecdata. poettering's contention
is :

i) there is only a problem if you have time-based fsck enabled
ii) this is not the default

your anecdote does not provide enough information to prove or disprove
his contention.
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