Could someone please throw some light on this? Thanks. -Raghu
----- Original Message ---- From: "rag...@yahoo.com" <rag...@yahoo.com> To: zookeeper-user@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Friday, 10 April, 2009 8:11:34 Subject: FastLeaderElection Hi, Could someone please explain quickly why logical clock is used in FastLeaderElection? It looks to me like the peers can converge on a leader (with highest zxid or server id if zxids are the same) even without the logical clock. May be I am missing something here, I could not figure out why logical clock is needed. Thanks Raghu