Re: Why hbase need to sync time between servers?

[xin meng]

i guess it's In relation to zookeeper

在 2012年3月8日 下午2:50，周文辉 <cnz...@gmail.com>写道：

> I installed hbase in my hadoop cluster.
> when i started hbase and i got an exception about
> ClockOutOfSyncException, somthing like this:
>
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ClockOutOfSyncException:
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ClockOutOfSyncException:
> Server slave,60020,1310983722679 has been rejected; Reported time is
> too far out of sync with
> master.  Time difference of 33514ms &gt; max allowed of 30000ms
>
> I know i need to sync the time.
>
> But does anybody know why hbase need this sync?
>
> Thanks very much!
>