On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 15:54 +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:05:09AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > Package: initramfs-tools > > Version: 0.93.4 > > Severity: important > > > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > > > > After a power grid problem in my neighborhood, my workstation > > rebooted and detected problems in the ext4 LVM volumes. > > > > It appears that after a manual fsck.ext4, these problems were > > trigerred because of a mismatch between the localtime and the time > > set during initramfs boot sequence (probably the bios time). > > > > The journal entries timestaps were simply offseted by one hour. This > > matches exactly the difference between the my bios time (set to UTC) > > and the Europe/Paris locatime my box uses. > > > > I think it would be good to set to the correct locatime before running > > disk checks that depend on the machine time. Otherwise it triggers > > errors that cannot be skipped automatically when they could be. > > initramfs does not do *any* fsck. > > also please just use UTC everywhere, this looks more like a > user support question those are to be asked in a debian user > mailinglist. thanks
This is actually a kernel bug, fixed by: commit 96ec2e0a719fd61791dd2b0dd01325c5d20e1233 Author: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Date: Wed Sep 16 11:21:13 2009 -0400 ext3: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-only commit 71290b368ad5e1e0b0b300c9d5638490a9fd1a2d Author: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Date: Thu Sep 10 17:31:04 2009 -0400 ext4: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-only Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett
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