Bug#624273: /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray should check creation date

[Sergey B Kirpichev]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:52:52PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> think of a case when you created
> the array with your clock was set wrong (say, 500
> years in the future) -- it will never be checked
> in this case...  

Yep.

> Yes there are easy ways to work
> around this very case - eg, to verify if creation
> date is in the future and ignore it

But we avoid from the another surprize (subject of this
bugreport): running check for today created array.

I can resend patch, but it's too easy to fix
things this way.

> but there, we'll
> have another issue: 500 years from now we'll risck
> skipping one check...

Not for sure.  There is a probability to have broken
clocks or to do server setup during of the first week
of month.  Which one is bigger?

> I think it isn't worth the effort fixing it at all,
> principle of least surprize should work best here
> (so that we know that arrays are checked at the
> fixed date, always).

That's a good reason to not overcomplicate
things.  You're right.

> After all, the whole thing is very minor.
> Do you not agree?

Personally, I agree with this decision (wontfix).
But I'm not bugreporter, nor a package maintainer.