You've learned on of the three computer science facts you need to know about distributed systems, and I'm glad I could pass something on:
1. Consistent, Available, Distributed - pick any two 2. To completely guard against k failures where you don't know which one failed just by looking you need 2k+1 redundant copies 3. Fault tolerant systems must all agree on what time it is On May 7, 2013, at 6:29 AM, Varun Chandramouli <varun....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Thanks for the replies. I started the ntp daemon and the warnings as well as > the crashes seem to have gone. This is the first time I set up a cluster (of > physical machines), and was unaware of the need to synchronize the clocks. > Probably should have googled it more :). Pardon my ignorance. > > Thanks Again, > Varun > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
