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Simon Mott
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One of my friends recently installed a new storage server in our shared lab environment and graciously gave me some storage space on it via iSCSI. I use Proxmox for my personal lab, and I intended to store some non-critical VM disks on this new storage so I could play around with properly using HA (High Availability) with Proxmox. Additionally, I wanted to gain some experience using iSCSI at the same time. While I trust my friend, the storage itself is outside of my control, so I figured it would be good pr
A while ago, I decided to play around with trying to create something cheap that would be able to synchronise its time by using GPS instead of over the internet – essentially building my own Stratum 1 time server. I intend this to be a series of articles about NTP and time servers, but let’s start with the basics…
The lower the “Stratum” number the more accurate the time it should be able to tell. Usually Stratum 1 time servers are directly connected to an accurate source of time such as (but not limited to) Atomic, GPS or even Radio clocks. The stratum of the machine which itself is directly interfacing with the accurate time source would be “Stratum 0”. For each additional layer of NTP servers added, the stratum increases by 1.
blog.dataforce.org.uk
blog.dataforce.org.uk
Simon Mott