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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9_P=C3=A9rez?= <fbl@aoek.com>
To: Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@mail.lifanov.com>
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Subject: Re: Official images without noatime
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Hello Nokolai,

El 2016-03-28 19:39, Nikolai Lifanov escribió:
> A simple case is during install /usr/bin/cmp is ran to compare two
> files, atime for /usr/bin/cmp is updated during a crash, and
> /usr/bin/cmp is gone on next boot. I then have to copy it out of
> /usr/obj and into place and run installworld again. It's the handful of
> utilities actually *used* by installworld that do this and mounting 
> root
> with noatime stops this from happening.

I suspect you have a problem somewhere else, maybe a faulty flash?

Can you reproduce with another hardware? Can you help us reproduce it?
What do you mean "atime is updated during a crash"??

>> My RPI2 shutdown cleanly with shutdown(8) or reboot(8).
>> 
> 
> It doesn't stay down if the power cable is still connected.

RP does not power down, you have to disconnect the power cable.
But first you have to stop the OS:
shutdown -p now
does that for you (which includes syncing and unmounting disks).

Regards,

---
José Pérez