[ntp:questions] Wrong time after changing hardware

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200707 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 04:10:24 UTC 2007


Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org> writes:
> Embedded systems / appliances which use flash memory are one place where
> writing/touching files unecessarily is a BadThing(tm).

In addition to flash you also have systems that make active use of
spinning down the disk to save power.  Disks also have a very limited
number of spinup/spindown cycles.

-wolfgang
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