[OpenAFS] quorum election

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Monday, February 14, 2005 02:01:28 PM -0500 "Derek T. Yarnell" 
<derek@cs.umd.edu> wrote:

> Bah, it has fixed itself. It may have been me forceing time
> syncronization on all the afs db/fileservers.

Yes, that would do it.  Ubik is very sensitive to time differences between 
dbservers; it needs the times to stay within a few seconds of each other. 
And, a large time step on a server may cause it to think it is no longer 
coordinator, and/or disrupt its ability to vote.  Depending on the nature 
of the change, the disruption could last as long as 80 seconds plus the 
amount of the time change.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA