topic Re: Date on NFS File in Operating System - Linux

Date on NFS File

Qcheck — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:55:04 GMT

When I create a file on the NFS file system, it gives the date created as Nov 7 2008. But when I create a file on local file system(ex /tmp) it gives the exact time as Nov 7 09:41. what could be the reason?

Re: Date on NFS File

Stephen P. Schaefer — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:23:04 GMT

The NFS server has a date in the future (possibly as little as one second), and the file is given the date by the server. Dates in the future are displayed in the format you saw. Best practice is to use NTP to keep the server and client dates matched.

Re: Date on NFS File

Qcheck — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:44:06 GMT

Steve,

We do have NTP server, but NFS server has the internal time server(10.2 subnet) and the server I have problem is on DMZ, which uses the time.nist.gov as an NTP server. So do you think this is the problem? Can I use the same NTP server for both the inside and outside the firewall servers? Your help is greatly appreciated....

Re: Date on NFS File

Qcheck — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:31:07 GMT

Nothing to do with NFS issue....