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Re: TODO for etch ?



Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 à 23:22 +0200, Florian Weimer a écrit :
> * Marc Haber:
> 
> > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 08:20:49 -0500, Adam Majer
> > <adamm@galacticasoftware.com> wrote:
> >>That could "save" a grand total of about a second.
> >
> > It will save time in case of error when the bootup process stalls for
> > timeouts like DNS and NTP.
> 
> You should set the clock using NTP *before* starting any daemons.
> Most daemons don't use monotonic clocks (I'm not even sure if Linux
> supports them at the required level), and some of them fail in strange
> ways if the system clock warps.

We need an "interface is ready" target in rcS and move ntpdate to
ifconfig if-up ...
This is tricky and i have no idea yet how to do it ... fix hotplug-net
or deisgn something new (as in hardware and internet ready , let s start
daemons ) ? 

Alban



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