Fossil SCM
Small clarity fix in the new CAP theorem doc
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| 97 | 97 | system is available only if the client can contact a *majority* of the |
| 98 | 98 | servers. This is a formalization of the warm spare concept above: with |
| 99 | 99 | *N* server nodes, you need at least ⌊*N* / 2⌋ + 1 of them to be online |
| 100 | 100 | for a commit to succeed. |
| 101 | 101 | |
| 102 | -Many distributed database systems run in CP mode, particularly | |
| 103 | -distributed database systems, because consistency (C) and | |
| 102 | +Many distributed database systems run in CP mode because consistency (C) and | |
| 104 | 103 | partition-tolerance (P) is a useful combination. What you lose is |
| 105 | 104 | always-available (A) operation: with a suitably bad partition, the |
| 106 | 105 | system goes down for users on the small side of that partition. |
| 107 | 106 | |
| 108 | 107 | An optional CP mode for Fossil would be attractive in some ways since in |
| 109 | 108 |
| --- 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, 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. |
| 107 | |
| 108 | An optional CP mode for Fossil would be attractive in some ways since in |
| 109 |
| --- 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 |
| 108 |