On 23.7.2020 12:04, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 10:37 PM Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
<johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And realistically speaking the use case for Chrony basically are that you are either running an ntp server or in an IT environment which requires sub-microsecond accurate time ( for example infrastructure at the size of FB ), environment's in which Fedora is seldom run in.
I take offense to that as someone who runs and helps support Fedora at
my workplace. And I imagine so would Facebook, considering they talked
about their very large footprint of Fedora at Flock last year. And as
Fedora gets preloaded on laptops that businesses buy, it's entirely
possible that usage will continue to rise.
I myself have built proper Fedora stratum 0 server and I'm not talking
about some glued together sbc, It costs around $4k and is better and
cheaper than some master clock that's insecure and EOL's and deployed
that stratum server in datacenter however all the Fedora host that
synced time with it used timesyncd.
What I was referring to was that the environment in which the benefits
that chrony provides over timesynd are used are few and far between (
It's an exception rather than a rule ). Those environment typically call
for you to use something like RHEL instead. I was not saying that Fedora
was not being deployed in a large scale in environments or did not exist
in those in the first place.
In anycase regardless of what you might feel the majority of Fedora's
user base is not running their own ntp server or requiring
sub-microsecond accuracy right and there is nothing in the workstation
that requires it and highly unlikely that there ever will be such an
requirement for a desktop. Chrony does not come configured to support
those specific features out of the box in which the administrator could
just as well install it since he needs to configure it in the first
place, to take advantage of those feature it has over timesyncd and
something that is already install and available ( timesyncd ) used instead.
JBG
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