Hi Ben! On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:51:53 +0000 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > Package: e2fsprogs > Version: 1.42.12-1 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > > We discussed this previously in person, but unfortunately the proposed > solution doesn't work. > > The plan for jessie (yes I know it's late) is to mount and fsck the > root and (if separate) /usr filesystems from initramfs code, before > handing over to the real init system. > > e2fsck complains if the superblock write time is in the future, and > because the RTC is set to local time on some systems, we are doing the > necessary correction of system time in the initramfs. This is > undesirable because changing the time zone may now require an > initramfs rebuild. > > You said that this check could be disabled in a configuration file, > e2fsck.conf, and we can create that in the initramfs. This works in > so far as it suppresses warnings while the initramfs code is running. > Unfortunately, every init system currently still checks the root > file-system again. If the RTC is set to local time and that is east > of UTC, the first fsck sets the write time in the future, and the > second fsck warns. > > Please disable this warning by default.
First of all, thanks for pushing forward on this issue in initramfs-tools. I was wondering, if an alternative to disabling the superblock time check in e2fsprogs, it wouldn't be better to just skip the fsck of / (and /usr, if separate). For that, initramfs-tools could create a flag file for / and /usr in /run and we'd update systemd-fsck-root.service and systemd-fsck@.service and add a Condition= which checks for that flag file. (suggestion, let's call them /run/fsck/root and /run/fsck/usr) The sysv init scripts could do something similar (therefore CCed). What do you think? Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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