Re: Serious server-side NFS problem

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Day writes:

>Ack, I was using this very same thing for several devices in an isolated
>peer-to-peer network to decide who the 'master' was. (Whoever had been up
>longest knew more about the state of the network) Having this change could
>cause weirdness for me too... I assumed (without checking *thwap*) that
>boottime was a constant.
>
>Perhaps a 'real_boottime' or 'unadjusted_boottime' that gets copied after
>'boottime' gets initialized so that others can use it, not just NFS? :)

no, I think that is a bad idea.  In your case you want to use the
"uptime" which *is* a measure of how long the system has been
running.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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