Problem with filesystems on non UTC clock

[McTango]

My Ultra5 is running Gentoo with all system packages and portage tree up to portage-20070416.
Kernel is 2.6.20-gentoo-r5

uname -a
Linux darwin 2.6.20-gentoo-r5 #5 Mon Apr 23 12:03:00 ART 2007 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre) GNU/Linux

My location is Argentina, so the clock is configured as UTC -3 (America/Buenos_Aires)
CLOCK="local" in /etc/conf.d/clock

The problem is on every rebooting, at the new startup, e2fsck says te following message for each partition in the hard drive, before mounting them:

/dev/hdaN: Superblock last write time is in the future. FIXED.

I searched internet for a solution, and it seems to be a problem with new version of e2fsprogs
Here is a link with a related problem on other system:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/pdf/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2006-01/msg00836.pdf

How can i fix it in Gentoo-Sparc ?
Thanx


Charly Tango
Formosa - Argentina

[cac]

Your system clock should really be in UTC. Using local is really only good for dual booting with Windows, and I doubt that will ever run on a SPARC. I'd set your system clock to UTC and set your timezone info in /etc/conf.d/clock. The rest of the OS will handle displaying the time correctly.

I also set to sync the system clock on shutdown/reboot and use NTP to ensure the clock contains the right time. SB100/150 are known to be very bad time keepers.

As far as your timestamp from the future problem, try performing some disk activity once you get the system clock straightened out. No expert here, but it just sounds like fsck is complaining as the last write activity on each drive is in the future. I've seen that every now and again and ignore it. It usually cleans it self up after a while. I'm not aware of any ill effects by letting things iron themselves out.

-Chris