We recently observed some strange behavior due to the filer's clock being about 1 minute and 30 seconds faster than a client's. The dates displayed by 'ls -l' of files that had been recently created were listed as "May 14 1998" instead of "May 14 18:22" like they should be.

It is important that NFS clients and servers have the same time. We would prefer to use NTP for time synchronization on the NetApp instead of running a cron job on a UNIX server that will fire off a 'rsh rdate' command on the filer.

Does anyone know about any NetApp plans to support NTP?

-- Mike