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Re:WPaxos: a wide area network Paxos protocol by ccleve on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @10:57AM (#16015456)
Perhaps we should step away from the terms "linearizability" and "serializability" and speak of global total ordering. That's what some other systems provide and this one doesn't. It's a valuable feature because it makes it possible to know the state of the system as of a snapshot in time.
Re:WPaxos: a wide area network Paxos protocol by matthelb on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:01PM (#16016028)
This is exactly what I was addressing in your initial comment! This system provides a global total ordering of operations. It's the whole point of a replicated state machine.

The ensuing conversation explored how/why the system provides a global total ordering.