[Gluster-devel] distributed files/directories and [cm]time updates

[Jeff Darcy]

> If the time is set on a file by the client, this increases the critical
> complexity to include the clients whereas before it was only critical to
> have the servers time synced, now the clients should be as well.

With any kind of server-side replication, the times could be generated by
the first server (instead of the client) and propagated to the others.
That leaves only the striping/sharding case, which I see Shyam has already
touched on.