Fossil SCM

Small clarity fix in the new CAP theorem doc

wyoung 2020-10-08 07:04 trunk
Commit 8a9facbb3e007d321f24127b5f2f2622b2857654aae8e79935b56b13a93ff86a
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--- www/cap-theorem.md
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system is available only if the client can contact a *majority* of the
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servers. This is a formalization of the warm spare concept above: with
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*N* server nodes, you need at least ⌊*N* / 2⌋ + 1 of them to be online
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for a commit to succeed.
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-Many distributed database systems run in CP mode, particularly
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-distributed database systems, because consistency (C) and
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+Many distributed database systems run in CP mode because consistency (C) and
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partition-tolerance (P) is a useful combination. What you lose is
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always-available (A) operation: with a suitably bad partition, the
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system goes down for users on the small side of that partition.
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An optional CP mode for Fossil would be attractive in some ways since in
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--- www/cap-theorem.md
+++ www/cap-theorem.md
@@ -97,12 +97,11 @@
97 system is available only if the client can contact a *majority* of the
98 servers. This is a formalization of the warm spare concept above: with
99 *N* server nodes, you need at least ⌊*N* / 2⌋ + 1 of them to be online
100 for a commit to succeed.
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102 Many distributed database systems run in CP mode, particularly
103 distributed database systems, because consistency (C) and
104 partition-tolerance (P) is a useful combination. What you lose is
105 always-available (A) operation: with a suitably bad partition, the
106 system goes down for users on the small side of that partition.
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108 An optional CP mode for Fossil would be attractive in some ways since in
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--- www/cap-theorem.md
+++ www/cap-theorem.md
@@ -97,12 +97,11 @@
97 system is available only if the client can contact a *majority* of the
98 servers. This is a formalization of the warm spare concept above: with
99 *N* server nodes, you need at least ⌊*N* / 2⌋ + 1 of them to be online
100 for a commit to succeed.
101
102 Many distributed database systems run in CP mode because consistency (C) and
 
103 partition-tolerance (P) is a useful combination. What you lose is
104 always-available (A) operation: with a suitably bad partition, the
105 system goes down for users on the small side of that partition.
106
107 An optional CP mode for Fossil would be attractive in some ways since in
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