Paxos algorithm
Paxos解决的是什么问题
state machine replication
如上所示的系统中,如果客户端要执行某个命令,那么将遵循如下的步骤:
- 发送命令到其中某一个server
- server首先将命令记录到log中,然后将命令发送到其他的服务中;其他server同样将其记录到log中
- 当命令完整的记录到各个server之后,就可以传到state machine去执行了,并将结果返回给客户端
其中,consensus module用来保证log的复制是正确的,也就是paxos要解决的问题。
Paxos算法
The Paxos algorithm, when presented in plain English, is very simple.
推导过程
Safety requirements
- Only a value that has been proposed may be chosen,
- Only a single value is chosen, and
- A process never learns that a value has been chosen unless it actually has been.