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". /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 >
