Butler Lampson
Citation: Distributed Systems-Architecture and Implementation,
ed. B. Lampson, M.
Email: blampson@microsoft.com. This paper is at http://www.research.microsoft.com.
Abstract:
This chapter deals with methods for performing atomic actions on a collection of computers, even in the face of such adverse circumstances as concurrent access to the data involved in the actions, and crashes of some of the computers involved. For the sake of definiteness, and because it captures the essence of the more general problem, we consider the problem of crash recovery in a data storage system which is constructed from a number of independent computers.