> Kyle’s testing found two new bugs: one in CockroachDB’s timestamp cache which could allow inconsistencies whenever two transactions are assigned the same time

> Kyle’s testing found two new bugs: one in CockroachDB’s timestamp cache which could allow inconsistencies whenever two transactions are assigned the same timestamp, and one in which certain transactions could be applied twice due to internal retries. Both of these issues were fixed. Source: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-beta-passes-jepsen-testing/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-beta-passes-j... If you're speaking to "Linearizability violations such as stale reads can occur when the clock offset exceeds CockroachDB’s threshold." from section 2.1 in Aphyr's analysis[0], this too is touched upon in the post above: > loose clock synchronization is necessary [...] to guarantee serializability. CockroachDB servers monitor the clock offset between them [...] although this monitoring is imperfect and may not be able to react quickly enough to large clock jumps. All CockroachDB deployments should use NTP to synchronize their system clocks [...] the default of 500ms (increased since Kyle’s testing, when it was 250ms) to be reasonable in most environments, including virtualized cloud platforms. [0]: https://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20160829 https://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20160829