[systemd-devel] [PATCH] timesyncd: Make saving clock to disk on NTP fix optional

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Sun Feb 1 06:58:05 PST 2015


On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 10:56:39AM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> El 01/02/2015 06:36, "Kay Sievers" <kay at vrfy.org> escribió:
> >
> > On Feb 1, 2015 5:34 AM, "Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" <zbyszek at in.waw.pl>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Kay, Lennart,
> > > comments?
> >
> > Sounds like overkill to me for such an exotic requirement. Just link the
> file to /dev/null and be done?
> 
> Yeah, I do not see the point on providing this option,  only the file
> timestamp is updated. That causes very little io.
> Symlink to null is the best solution IMHO.

OK, I didn't think about that.

Philipp, I'll close the bug then, since the symlink thing works just as well.

Zbyszek


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