[OpenAFS-devel] time synchronization status

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:20 -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
>    I was trying to find a roadmap for openafs specifically I was curious
>   if the time synchronization feature would be maintained or if it is
>   going to be deprecated. I had thought I read something suggesting it
>   would be deprecated but I can't find the reference anymore.
> 
> I think the discussion was on openafs-devel a few months ago.  All we did
> was change the default from settime to nosettime.  I don't think there are
> any plans to remove time setting completely, although if it becomes
> difficult to support on some platform I wouldn't be surprised to see it
> either go away or turn into a warning.
> 
> Do you have some need for this feature?  I would be curious to know why.

To be honest, no. I was told to look into it by various powers. I'd
prefer to use ntp to sync the time b/c then I don't have to guess
whether or not the machine is running afs.

Thank you for your time.

-sv