Does the Linux NFS client support SET_TO_CLIENT_TIME?

[Talpey, Thomas]

At 04:19 PM 5/10/2007, Peter Staubach wrote:
>David Wuertele wrote:
>> I have a make application building in an NFS mount that is getting 
>confused by
>> the server having different system time from the client.
>
>SET_TO_CLIENT_TIME is used for system calls like utime() and utimes()
>and is only applicable to SETATTR calls.
>
>Otherwise, all file times are maintained by the server.

Is the confusion on cached file/directory contents? If so, you might be
able to use "-o noac" to disable caching and plow through. It'll be slow,
of course.

If it's on file timestamps confusing make itself, then you really need
to fix the time skew. Actually, you really to fix it anyway! How far
off are these two systems?

Tom.