Subject: Re: NFS oddity
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Ben Collver <collver1@comcast.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/26/2004 09:24:37
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 01:14:28PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> I think this is the normal behavior of NFS. NFS ops don't include the client's
> time, to the server update the timestamp with its own time.
> The exeption is when the process on the client use the utime(2) system call:
> in this case, the client issue a RPC to change the timestamp of the
> file to the server, and this RPC include the timestamp to use.
Thank you for the explanation. It makes sense and I'll simply keep my
clocks in sync.
Ben