PaxosLease: Diskless Paxos for Leases
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 2:11AM
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PaxosLease is a distributed algorithm for lease negotiation. It is based on Paxos, but does not require disk writes or clock synchrony. PaxosLease is used for master lease negotation in the open-source Keyspace replicated key-value store.

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