On Thursday 10 September 2009 22:29:27 Theodore Tso wrote: > > > I don't want to set buggy_init_scripts for openSUSE as the init > > scripts are not buggy, but a live cd is a live cd and has no idea > > what the timezone of the system is configured to and even a ro > > mount will destroy your file system ;( > > Well, you're over-dramatizing things; it doesn't destroy your > filesystem --- it just forces an unnnecessary fsck. And it only does > this if the system had been uncleanly shutdown before the the boot. > Yes, it doesn't destroy your file system but it forces you to do a manual fsck and no, there is no need for a unclean shutdown, it will always happen. The work flow is as such: - boot into live cd, live cd thinks system is UTC, mounts sda1 (ro) at 9am, umounts cleanly, updates mount time to 11am (hardware clock) - boot into real system, time is set to CEST and hardware clock is read as 9am. fsck will say the file has uncorrectable errors and abort. This does _not_ happen with 1.14.8 as PR_0_FUTURE_SB_LAST_MOUNT contained PR_PREEN_OK and that makes it continue. Now 1.14.9 does preenhalt on the two hour difference of mount time even as the problem is just as harmless - and it will not appear on distributions with buggy init scripts. Your kernel patch makes sense, but it won't change the problem: because the problem is mtime not wtime. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
