[systemd-devel] systemd 28 time handling changes "breaks" ntpdate and date ?

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:56, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Kay Sievers at 27/04/12 11:03 did gyre and gimble:

>> The real reason is that the extfs tools just make silly assumptions. You
>> should patch it away or disable that nonsense in the extfs config file,
>> which is what Fedora does.
>
> Ahh, thanks for the hint. Are there similar tweaks in Fedora for other
> fs types (xfs, reiser)?

I'm not aware that any other filesystem tool would rely on the clock
to be correct when it runs, which is especially 'interesting' during
bootup. It sounds like a pretty broken idea as a default.

Kay