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Re:Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed ... by aneutron on Friday July 16, 2021 @03:55PM (#27860521)
It's not possible do to so, since it would be done asynchronously.

I'm sorry, I'll see myself out.

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Re:Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed ... by erik_seaberg on Friday July 16, 2021 @05:01PM (#27861174)
Obviously we need a third distributed consensus algorithm as a tiebreaker.
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Re:Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed ... by _jal on Friday July 16, 2021 @06:14PM (#27861834)
That really should be generalized to support N algorithms. Some sort of quorum protocol, maybe.
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