Hi -- Thanks for this enlightening thread! Having not had the time to study the code in detail, I too have been uncertain as to whether Paxos was or was not at the core of ZooKeeper's coordination guarantees.
One reason I was unclear was the small parenthetical comment on: http://zookeeper.wiki.sourceforge.net/ZooKeeperGuarantees which states "(This is called the _monotonicity condition_ in Paxos.)" Without additional information, it's not clear whether this just notes a minor point of similarity between two different algorithms, or implies that Paxos is part of ZooKeeper. If you could include some of the recent mailing list discussion on the Wiki, I suspect it would help future readers. Chris. P.S. Glad to hear you're joining as an Apache project. :-) -- GPG Key ID: 366A375B GPG Key Fingerprint: 485E 5041 17E1 E2BB C263 E4DE C8E3 FA36 366A 375B ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Zookeeper-user mailing list Zookeeper-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zookeeper-user
