[sheepdog-users] About time synchronization

Liu Yuan namei.unix at gmail.com
Tue Oct 22 07:24:13 CEST 2013


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 01:31:58PM +0200, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> How much important is to have the clock synchronized on the nodes?
> 
> a) Sheepdog will not work
> b) Sheepdog may encounter some problems (which one?)
> c) It doesn't matter

It doesn't matter for sheep daemon.

> If we have 3 node with the following date/time:
> 
> node1 15:20
> node2 15:15
> node3 15:25
> 
> Node 3 leaves the cluster: which epoch time is going to be recoded
> when I look at 'cluster info'?

The only affected output with different time is, 'cluster info' may see
different 'time' on "Epoch Time" field. But this won't affect the cluster
at all

Thanks
Yuan



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