set timestamp from ZFS-root - (was: Re: RPI4 + ntpdate + unbound)
- In reply to: Peter Jeremy : "Re: RPI4 + ntpdate + unbound"
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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 09:30:20 UTC
On 7/6/22 11:47, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2022-Jul-01 21:02:05 -0700, John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net> wrote: >> So I've got a RPI4 (no system time stored in NVRAM) that I did a stock >> type FreeBSD install on setting the time with ntpdate and the unbound >> DNS server (aiming for DNSSEC). As many people have noted before me, >> that setup is sort of broken because you can't look up DNSSEC hosts if >> you think it's 1970. No NTP time servers == no date reset == no DNS. > > If you're running UFS, the system clock should get set to the timestamp > in the superblock. That will be the last sync before the previous > shutdown so it'll be minutes to hours out of date but that should be > recent enough for DNSSEC to work. > > Note that this only works on UFS - see > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=254058 > > As an alternative option, the RTC in both the Rock64 and RockPro64 > are supported. > This is a nifty feature I did not know about. Cc-ing freebsd-fs@ to try get some attention on this. Is it possible to implement this on ZFS? Ronald.