On 02/11/13 21:48, David Lord wrote:
Ntpd writes to its drift file and also ntp.log. The drift file
is critical and is used and updated at intervals by ntpd.
The drift file is an optimisation. ntpd should work without it, but
will take longer to acquire lock after a restart.
What would cause more problems would be a drift file that was present,
but read-only, as ntpd would skip its frequency calibration and trust
the frozen value in that file, then suffer wild swings as it begins to
discover the value was wildly wrong.
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