How far out of sync are the nodes? A few minutes or less? Many hours? Worst case, you could simply take the entire cluster down until that future time has passed and then bring it back up.
-- Jack Krupansky On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Jeff Jirsa <jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com> wrote: > If you don’t overwrite or delete data, it’s not a concern. > If the clocks show a time in the past instead of in the future, it’s not a > concern. > > If the clock has drifted significantly into the future, when you start NTP > you may be writing data with timestamps lower than timestamps on data that > already exists. In this case, the existing data (with timestamps in the > future) may take precedence over new writes (with correct timestamps). > > > > From: K F > Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org", K F > Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 8:23 AM > To: User > Subject: ntpd clock sync > > Hi, > > I have question about ntpd. In certain clusters where new datacenters were > added since 1 week we stood-up those machines didn't have ntpd running on > them. Will it cause any problem if we enable or start ntpd now on those > newly added datacenters. > > Thanks. >