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SubjectRe: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew
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Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org> writes:

> When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini;
> Freescale 7447A):
>
> $ date && touch f && ls -l f && rm -f f && date
> Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23
> Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006
>
> Notice the timestamp is 3 minutes in the future compared with the
> system time. "make" is not a very happy bunny running on this kernel
> due to every touched file being 3 minutes in the future.

> In both these cases, the chrony NTP daemon is running, if that might
> be a problem.

Some further information:
- this does not appear to affect i386 kernels
- I have
CONFIG_HZ_250=y
CONFIG_HZ=250
in my .config; the full config is at
http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/config-2.6.16-rc2


Regards,
Roger

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