Re: [HACKERS] 2PC: discussion in comp.arch

2003-06-30 Thread Sailesh Krishnamurthy
>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

[HACKERS] 2PC: discussion in comp.arch

2003-06-30 Thread Ronald Khoo
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 ---(end of broadcast)--- TI