Recovering Shared Objects Without Stable Storage
- Ellis Michael ,
- Dan R. K. Ports ,
- Naveen Kr. Sharma ,
- Adriana Szekeres
Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '17) |
Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '17) |
We apply crash-consistent quorums and crash vectors to build two storage primitives. We give a new algorithm for multi-reader multi-writer atomic registers in the DCR model that guarantees safety under all conditions and termination under a natural condition. It improves on the best prior protocol for this problem by requiring fewer rounds, fewer nodes to participate in the quorum, and a less restrictive liveness condition. We also present a more efficient single-reader, single-writer atomic set—a virtual stable storage abstraction. It can be used to lift any existing algorithm from the traditional Crash-Recovery with Stable Storage model to the DCR model. We examine a specific application, state machine replication, and show that existing diskless protocols can violate their correctness guarantees, while ours offers a general and correct solution.