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Comment by snewman

To be precise, I would argue this is actually a CA system.

"C" because there are consistency guarantees, which are upheld even in the face of failures / partition.

"A" because the system will continue making progress even after a node failure. What I called a "hiccup" can be made arbitrarily short, in principle at least. The system can work around failed nodes, it does not need to wait for them to be repaired.

Not "P", because if the network falls apart sufficiently, the system will generally not be able to progress.

parent snewman 14 years ago

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