[libvirt] [PATCH] libvirt-guests: wait for ntp service

[Jim Fehlig]

Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 04:50:33PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>> Michal Privoznik wrote:
>>> On 20.09.2014 01:36, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>>>> Martin Kletzander wrote:
>>>>> Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with systemd files, but my guess
>>>>> is that After=ntp-wait.service means it should be started after the
>>>>> time is synchronized if and only if the ntp-wait.service unit is
>>>>> enabled, otherwise it doesn't require it.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, this is my understanding too.
>>>
>>> And so is mine. The only concern I have is that syncing time on cold
>>> boot of the host may take ages.
>>
>> Yep, I have this concern too.  So I dug a bit further and see that
>> ntp-wait (a perl script) scrapes the output of `ntpq -c "rv 0`, waiting
>> for leap_alarm to change to leap_none, leap_add_sec, or leap_del_sec.
>> On my test system, this took ~16min on cold boot :-(.  ntp-wait.service
>> failed in the meantime, since it by default calls /usr/sbin/ntp-wait
>> with options to only wait 10min.
>>
>>> But on the other hand, it's better to start domains later and with
>>> correct time than start asap with inaccurate time. ACK then,
>>
>> Given the above observations, I'll wait to see if you change your mind.
>>
>
> What would you say to changing it to After=ntpdate.service?

It appears ntpdate is deprecated

https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate

Like ifconfig, it is having a very slow death.

Regards,
Jim