Daniel Quinlan quinlan@transmeta.com writes:
I'm also interesting in NTP support, but I think I'd like to see the current software become a lot more reliable (and complete) before adding another new feature. All I need is more NetApp crashes because of NTP bugs.
I should add that this happened to us just a few days ago:
- xntpd died on our adminhost (that ran the cron job to set the NetApp dates) - time drifted by 8 minutes on the adminhost and the filers over the course over a few days - someone started having problems, managed to figure out that it was because of the time drift, and we fixed it. (Other people probably had problems, but didn't report them.)
To prevent it from happening again, we're remotely monitoring the system time of the adminhost (using "mon") to make sure it doesn't drift off again. Incidentally, there seems to be no way to remotely query the system time from a NetApp (except by creating a new file and running stat() on it, or by using unsupported/hidden commands).
However, I'm still saying that I don't want NTP until other supported protocols (such as NDMP) start working reliably.
Dan