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** for functional names mainly/roles
** for functional names mainly/roles


==API==
==Implementation==
 
* paxos algorithm


==use cases==
==use cases==

Revision as of 15:39, 13 February 2014

Discussion of Chubby

  • Coarse-grained locking service
  • developed at Google
  • no new algorithms, methods

Design

  • "filesystem"
  • every file and directory is a readers/writers lock
  • only small files 256K max
  • only whole file operations
  • locks are all advisory
  • also functions as a name server
    • for functional names mainly/roles

Implementation

  • paxos algorithm

use cases