Thanks for this paper info... It is formalized and not easy to understand. 

Still reading... :P

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On 2011年4月21日星期四 at 上午7:21, André Oriani [via zookeeper-user] wrote: 
>  If you wanna go deep on Zab http://research.yahoo.com/files/YL-2010-007.pdf
> 
> - 
> André 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 17:26, Benjamin Reed <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > just to add a bit to alex's reponse: we do a simplified 2pc since we 
> > do not have aborts. we also differ from 2pc during recovery which is 
> > made up of two sub phases. 
> > 
> > ben 
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Alexander Shraer 
> > <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> >> Hi, 
> >> 
> >> Regarding your first question - ZAB has two parts - the broadcast protocol 
> >> you mention, 
> >> which is executed by a leader, and the leader election protocol, which 
> >> recovers from a leader failure. 
> >> This is similar to the way other state-machine replication algorithms 
> >> work, where you have 
> >> a fast normal mode and a slower recovery mode (you don't need to execute 
> >> both all the time - only when the leader fails). 
> >> See Paxos state-machine replication for example (section 3): 
> >> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#paxos-simple
> >> 
> >> Regarding your second question - Zookeeper basically guarantees so called 
> >> "sequential consistency" semantics. 
> >> This guarantees that the real execution looks to clients like some 
> >> sequential execution in which 
> >> the operations of every client appear in the order they were submitted. It 
> >> does not guarantee that a read of one client 
> >> returns the latest value written by another client. This allows reads to 
> >> be executed locally. If you need to return the latest 
> >> state, you can use the sync() call which flushes the pending updates 
> >> between the leader and a follower. 
> >> See also the "consistency guarantees" section here: 
> >> http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.3.1/zookeeperProgrammers.html
> >> 
> >> Alex 
> >> 
> >>> -----Original Message----- 
> >>> From: daidong [mailto:[hidden email]] 
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 2:38 AM 
> >>> To: [hidden email] 
> >>> Subject: Problems about Zab protocol 
> >>> 
> >>> Hi, everyone. 
> >>> 
> >>> Recently, i read the paper "a simple total ordered broadcast protocol" 
> >>> and 
> >>> there are some problems i can not figure out. Hope anyone can help 
> >>> me... :P 
> >>> 
> >>> The paper describes the Zab protocol as a 2 phase commit protocol when 
> >>> system is under broadcast mode. However some paper(Skeen 82, "A Quorum 
> >>> Based 
> >>> Commit Protocol") has mentioned if we want to extend an 2PC to adapt a 
> >>> quorum based commit protocol we must introduce a three phase commit 
> >>> protocol(In fact, i haven't quit understood this, :( ). However 
> >>> according 
> >>> Zab paper, this still can be done. Why and how to do this? 
> >>> 
> >>> Secondly, even Zookeeper can guarantee that status in different 
> >>> followers 
> >>> are consistent. However, this consistency only works among a quorum of 
> >>> followers that has acked the COMMIT. As the client can connect to any 
> >>> followers when perform reading action, so what happens if the client 
> >>> happens 
> >>> to connect with the follower that has not acked the COMMIT? I can not 
> >>> find 
> >>> the information in this paper... 
> >>> 
> >>> If i ask some naive question, Hope anybody can tell me where i can find 
> >>> the 
> >>> answer or some suggestions, thanks :) 
> >>> 
> >>> 
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