Repository: flink Updated Branches: refs/heads/master 0cb9eb59e -> 0e21941e3
[docs] small fix to the description of the checkpointing mechanism Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/commit/0e21941e Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/tree/0e21941e Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/diff/0e21941e Branch: refs/heads/master Commit: 0e21941e3035bf6d8ce7ade067834e1c2e1d6d7d Parents: 0cb9eb5 Author: Paris Carbone <[email protected]> Authored: Tue Jul 7 12:25:59 2015 +0200 Committer: Paris Carbone <[email protected]> Committed: Tue Jul 7 12:40:18 2015 +0200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- docs/internals/stream_checkpointing.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/blob/0e21941e/docs/internals/stream_checkpointing.md ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/internals/stream_checkpointing.md b/docs/internals/stream_checkpointing.md index 9fee117..5177568 100644 --- a/docs/internals/stream_checkpointing.md +++ b/docs/internals/stream_checkpointing.md @@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ Kafka exploits this ability. The central part of Flink's fault tolerance mechanism is drawing consistent snapshots of the distributed data stream and operator state. These shapshots act as consistent checkpoints to which the system can fall back in case of a failure. Flink's mechanism for drawing these -snapshots is described in "[Lightweight Asynchronous Snapshots for Distributed Dataflows](http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08603)". It is a modification of the -[Chandy-Lamport algorithm](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/chandy.pdf) for distributed snapshots, simplified -and tailored to Flink's needs. +snapshots is described in "[Lightweight Asynchronous Snapshots for Distributed Dataflows](http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08603)". It is inspired by +the standard [Chandy-Lamport algorithm](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/chandy.pdf) for distributed snapshots and is +specifically tailored to Flink's execution model.
