[time-nuts] Simple NTP server based on a Raspberry Pi

Pete Lancashire pete at petelancashire.com
Tue Oct 30 17:08:35 UTC 2012


Try to place all files that regularly change, in this case the drift
file on storage other
then the SD card. Almost all of these storage devices SD, USB Memory etc have
a limited number of write cycles. Even a 1 MB ram disk is worth the effort.

-pete

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us> wrote:
> Hi
>
> One week link on the Pi (at the moment) is file system access. Storage is on
> an SD card and the drivers aren't as optimized as you might like. Not so big
> a deal for NTP, might be a bigger deal for a web or file server. I have not
> tried USB disks, so no idea how they do.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Chris Albertson
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:17 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Simple NTP server based on a Raspberry Pi
>
> I've always wondered about the utility of a light duty server.  They
> are useless unless you have at least one client computer to use it and
> then it you do have a computer why not simply run the server on that?
> All NTP installations are both clients and servers.
>
> One reason I asked abut load average is because I thought the Pi might
> make a good web and file server.  Seems like it might.  Those are
> services that also need to run 24x7
>
> --
>
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
>
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