| Re: [chrony-dev] can chrony adjust H/W clock too ?q:q |
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:04:35 -0700 (PDT)
Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:53:53AM -0700, Bill Unruh wrote:
> >> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> >>> We can add an option to unset the UNSYNC flag in chrony too
> >>> (would be allowed only if rtcfile is disabled).
> >>
> >> That would completely destroy chrony's ability to determine the
> >> drift of the rtc clock (or hwclock's ability to determine its
> >> drift). The ONLY use of the rtc is for setting the intial clock.
> >> This would make that far worse.
> >
> > Some users don't need to know or compensate for RTC drift. They may
> > be running servers 24/7 and they just want to have good time after
> > a crash or power failure as there will be no shutdown sequence with
> > hwclock executed. The 11 minute mode is good enough in such cases.
>
> Agreed.
>
+1 me
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