Chapter 10 Reference 64

The Part-Time Parliament

Leslie Lamport

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 1998 microsoft.com

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Leslie Lamport. "The Part-Time Parliament." ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, volume 16, issue 2, pages 133–169, May 1998. doi:10.1145/279227.279229

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A fault-tolerant file system called Echo was built at SRC in the late 80s. The builders claimed that it would maintain consistency despite any number of non-Byzantine faults, and would make progress if any majority of the processors were working. As with most such systems, it was quite simple when nothing went wrong, but had […]

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