[Zope] fstest reports time-stamp reduction, what does it mean and should I be worried?

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Sun Mar 8 08:26:17 EDT 2009


Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Are you using an old ZODB version?

Nope, Zope 2.9.8.

> In older ZODB versions, this should happen when your clock
> jumped back into the past.

The clocks on both the storage servers are NTP synched and I'm pretty 
sure they've not jumped back at any point...

> Also, packing may work differently than your expect (during
> packing the transaction ids are interpreted as timestamps -- and
> this requires that they truely reflect the time (which does not
> jump into the past)).

Well, the storage in question is packed once an hour, and I've had no 
complaints from the customers, so I'm guessing this may not matter...

Chris



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