On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:27:36 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
> > >On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 23:44:08 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > >2) Feb  6 01:36 (boot time)
> > >> > >3) Feb  6 04:36 (+3 TZ future jump)
> > >> >
> > >> > These timestamps have been touched, and the clock has made a 3 hour
> > >> > jump either forward or backward at some point.
> > >> >
> > >> > The problem is the clock jump, not DEVFS.
> > >>
> > >> Clock jump happens as it supposed when adjkerntz(8) corrects machine clock
> > >> back to GMT via various CPU_* sysctl's. Could touched DEVFS stamps be
> > >> fixed back to something useful in the same sysctl code too?
> > >
> > >This should be well known to devfs users.
> > >
> > >devfs sets at least some of the times before adjkerntz can run, and nothing
> > >fixes them, so these times are wrong by the timezone difference.
> >
> > This is not any different from any other filesystem.
>
> No, it IS different - no real filesystems mounted at this point yet, so no
> real timestamps damaged.

More precisely: some are mounted, but they are mounted read-only (modulo
the bug that adjkerntz is run a little after mounting filesystems read-write).

Bruce


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