On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 1:17 PM Marcus D. Leech <patchvonbr...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2021-11-12 13:14, Rob Kossler wrote:
>
>
>>
> I will try soon, but such experiments are "expensive" because when it
> fails I have to re-burn the file system and then reconfigure stuff
> afterwords since I don't know how to recover from the issue.  My guess was
> that either the mount or the eject was writing a date (perhaps an
> "accessed" date in some metadata) that was much in the future relative to
> the file system "Aug 6 2021" date that it gets and somehow this date
> mismatch was causing the fsck failure.  But I am not knowledgeable on
> this.
>
> Regarding your NTPD comment, perhaps it isn't accessing any RTC.  Perhaps
> it is storing the time in the file system somewhere such that it can
> access it on next boot?
>
> Your comments indicated the resulting time after reboot in this case was
> *correct*, which would mean that something would have to be "keeping time"
> across the
>   reboot.  Or did you mean just that the time after reboot, without the
> network cable connected, but with NTPD turned on, was "closer" to correct
> than without?
>

You're right. I just meant that it was today's date on reboot.  I didn't
check to see if it was actually keeping time in between.  It would have
only been a few seconds anyway.
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