On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 09:32:10AM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote:
> I don't have mine (EdgeRouter lite) running anymore, but IIRC, I had a cron
> job poking the root fs to"resolve" this.
>
> Sth like "mkdir /bump && rmdir /bump && sync".
I have no idea how this would solve the "boot sets last modified time
of fs in superblock wrongly" issue.
-Otto
>
> /Alexander
>
> On January 12, 2024 2:35:47 PM GMT+01:00, Christian Gut <cycl...@is-root.org>
> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Could somebody point me to documentation or tell me where OpenBSD gets the
> >time from, when the system has no RTC and ntpd is not working?
> >
> >I am using an EdgeRouter / octeon and at every reboot, the date/time gets
> >reset to the exact same date.
> >
> >I tried to read the source code of boot(9) and inittodr(9). I can see, that
> >there seems to be a fallback to some timestamp that comes from the
> >filesystem. Maybe when the root filesystem is mounted as of ffs_mountroot()
> >for example. But my understanding did not go so far to identify from which
> >file, directory, superblock or other filesystem metadata the information
> >really comes from.
> >
> >It seems to me, that either my system is broken or something on octeon does
> >not work correctly for this fallback to happen correctly.
> >
> >Kind Regards,
> >Christian
> >
>
