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Emne: Re: [DNG] Time sync at startup (was: vdev)
Quoting richard lucassen (mailinglists@???):

> When you install a new machine? Or whenever you boot and there is a
> network problem, you will have to wait until ntp times out before you
> can do anything. Normally it doesn't bother, but when you're mucking
> about with machines you can run into this problem.


When you're mucking about with machines, you would temporarily disable
problematic services. ;-> Certainly, a service that waits to timeout
for lack of network access is annoying -- on some micrometer scale in a
universe that also includes death taxes, and bilious orange buffoons
aspiring to the USA's Presidency.

> <systemd bashing>
>
> In the beginning, one of the reasons systemd was created was to
> increase boot up speed. That's something I've never understood,
> because:

[...]

Yes, seriously that was always an incredibly silly debating point, and
it's fascinating that proponents spent _that_ large a percentage of
their time rebooting their machines. Perhaps with a bit of debugging of
their software, they might not need to reboot as often.

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