Comment 52 for bug 43239

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Sven Joachim wrote:
> In this case, hwclock.sh cannot write to /etc/adjtime because the root
> filesystem is still mounted read-only. Currently hwclock.sh creates
> /etc/adjtime if it doesn't exist, but that might not be necessary, I don't
> know.

hwclock can cope well with read-only adjtime, if you do things right, EVEN
when you depend on adjtime to keep your clock working right (which nowadays
mostly nobody does, as chrony and ntp have taken over). This was one of the
reasons behind the split into hwclockfirst and hwclock initscripts.

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