6.824 Spring 2018 Paper Questions

For each paper, your assignment is two-fold. By midnight the night before lecture:

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Lecture 7

Please read the paper's Appendices. In Spinnaker a leader to responds to a client request after the leader and one follower have written a log record for the request on persistent storage. Why is this sufficient to guarantee strong consistency even after the leader or the one follower fail?

(This paper relies on Zookeeper, which we will read later.)


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