Did you know that nfs mount requires accurate time?
Oscar Levi writes:
> 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?)
Yes sure I can add hwclock.
> Also, it seems like it would be helpful to add a note to the README in
> the disks-alpha directory about nfs installs requiring accurate time.
I was not aware of that, do you know where is this restriction needed?
(I know I used NFS for some time between a machine in year 2018 and
normal ones).
> Note that the ARC time is not the same as is expected by hwclock. I
> originally set the clock with ARC and found that time was in the year
> 1930 after booted. I recall that there used to be a time program that
> compreheded ARC time.
The "epoch selection" should be done by the kernel, but the code there
may be wrong or incomplete.
Loic
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