On 2015-02-25, Paul <tik-...@bodosom.net> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:17 PM, William Unruh <un...@invalid.ca> wrote: > >> It is superior in that you can do it easily. Whether that is of any >> importance to you is of course up to you. Myself I have never used it. >> > > As is often the case you completely miss the point.
As is often the case, you have no point to make. > > >> Fine. It has already been written for chrony. For those that want it, >> this is an advantage for chrony. I could argue that ntpd is >> no better than nothing because I could write a program to do what ntpd >> does. While (possibly) true, it is a silly argument. >> > > If there's an real use case for the feature then writing a few lines of > some scripting language to implement an equivalent solution for NTPd is not > a significant effort. > Again, you cannot read. The claim was this feature was the same as orphan or local mode. You seem to now agree that it is not. That was my point. > If such an add-on was available for NTPd would you stop or would you > continue asserting that Chrony has some unproven advantage. And until > someone shows the level of correction you can expect then it remains > unproven speculation. > As I have said, I do not use it. It is a difference from ntpd. If ntpd had it then I would agree it is not a difference or an advantage for chrony. But until it is written it is. So go ahead and write it, When you do and get it incorporated into ntpd, I will advocate removal of that sentence from the description of the advantages of chrony in the docs. I do not expect to have to do so anytime soon. > >> >> (assuming the presense does not mess other things up). >> > > Yeah there's always that. > > >> Your wristwatch may well be a much better ticker than the localclock >> > > Well mine isn't but that wasn't the point. Come back when you have real > measurements of an end-to-end system. I don't care about the time source. > You assert that there's an advantage to disciplining a clock by hand versus > free-running. So come back in a year and tell me how it went. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
