>From Bill Todd's post:
> This is the simple 'two-phase commit, presumed-abort' mechanism. It has no
> problems guaranteeing distributed consistency, but does suffer from the
> problem that if the coordinator *never* recovers some of the other nodes may
> be left 'in doubt' about the
Curious bit of synchronicity, related discussion going on in comp.arch
on same topic, lurkers like me might appreciate the explanation given in
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=svudnRBY5twrXG6jXTWJkQ%40metrocast.net
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