[time-nuts] Best OS for small time server

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sat Feb 23 17:15:16 EST 2008


> I thought linux also had a noatime option...

It does.  (or at least the man page for mount describes it)

If I was going to run a NTP server out of flash, I'd put the log files in RAM 
and back them up occasionally (ballpark, 1 hour) to flash.

There has been a lot of work on making file systems flash friendly.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFFS2


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