[Gluster-users] metadata for stat : Should it be identical?

[James]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning
<lanning at lanning.cc> wrote:
> Also, the time used would have to be sent from the client (using the
> client's time.) Otherwise, every query will cause a time negotiation between
> all servers to figure out the "proper" time.
>
> Then it will be on the users to keep all clients sync'd, or you will have
> competing time updates.



These are one possibility. A good example of why distributed systems
are hard (and maybe expensive too!)