On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:26 AM, John Spray <jspray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Nathan Cutler <ncutler@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Ceph: >> >> >> Is there any reasonable Ceph cluster node configuration that does not >> include running the NTP daemon? > > Only if there is some other time service replacing it. I don't really > know of anyone using alternative ntp daemons, but it's a possibility > to consider before introducing a hard dependency on ntpd. > There's also the case of virtualization where the clock is managed by the host OS rather than the guest where the Ceph services are running. Anyone running a virtualized test/dev cluster or simply using VMs to provide isolation between services won't want to have a requirement on NTP. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
