Re: Did you know that nfs mount requires accurate time?
- To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
- Cc: Debian-Devel <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Did you know that nfs mount requires accurate time?
- From: Oscar Levi <elf@buici.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:01:04 -0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19990202110104.A1788@hazel.buici.com>
- In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990202014518.362A-100000@wakko>; from Jason Gunthorpe on Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 01:46:54AM -0700
- References: <19990202000742.A441@hazel.buici.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.990202014518.362A-100000@wakko>
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 01:46:54AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Oscar Levi wrote:
>
> > This brings a couple of suggestions to mind. First, Loic, is there
> > room on the install disks for hwclock about 32K I think. I'm gonna
> > suggest to the d-boot list that we add an optional 'set time' step to
> > the install procedure for the sake of enabling nfs installs. Also, it
> > would be keen if this time-set could be committed to CMOS RAM. (Is
> > that what the UDBs have?)
>
> It seems to me it would be much more sensible to either
> a) implement http/ftp and ignore this problem with nfs
Remember that we are talking about installing base. There aren't the
facilities for apt at this point in the installation.
> b) sync the local clock to the server clock using trivial time protocol
> this is the smallest and most reliable option [netdate is 9k]
This could work. The trouble is that we need to set it in CMOS, too.
This isn't a problem with getting the correct date. I don't believe
that the clocks must be exactly the same. Thus, netdate is one method
for getting the date, but it seems more appropriate to make it a
general change to setup where the user can set the system clock.
>
> Jason
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