Tuesday, October 02, 2012

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Paper Trail » Blog Archive » Consensus Protocols: Two-Phase Commit: "The worst case scenario is when the co-ordinator is itself a participant, and grants itself a vote on the outcome of the protocol. Then a crash to the co-ordinator takes out both it and a participant, guaranteeing that the protocol will remain blocked, and as a result of only one failure."

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