On Monday 16 July 2007 04:08:39 am Ivan Voras wrote: > Victor Snezhko wrote: > > > Also, this was a surprise to an unexperienced me, but I have also > > found that vfs_mount initializes RTC with the latest timestamp found > > on local file systems - this explains why kernel "worked" for Ivan on > > a hard drive. It didn't actually work, but used timestamp which was > > stored on filesystem during unmount. > > Wow - this is just astonishing - why would a file system have anything > to do with the RTC? It's more that we use the filesystem's timestamp as a way to validate the timestamp from the RTC and to do a fixup if the RTC appears to be dead. -- John BaldwinReceived on Mon Jul 16 2007 - 10:45:46 UTC
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