network partition

This last case is also commonly referred to as a network partition.

A system may be part of multiple network partitions.

Summary: Has there been a network partition, or what?

One extreme scenario is worthy of further mention: network partitioning events.

These local replicas provide faster access and robustness to network partitions.

Thus, should a network partition arise, at most one subgroup of members will continue operations, while the other is certain to stall and shut down.

FM algorithm is a linear time heuristic for improving network partitions.

In case of network partitioning, sites are partitioned and the partitions may not be able to communicate with each other.

If components are not able to contact one another using the network (a condition known as a network partition), operation of the system will continue.

Only the computers which are in the same logical network partition will be able to access the resources in the domain.

Once a network partitioning has been detected, access to the sub-partitions is limited in order to guarantee consistency.

A network partition refers to the failure of a network device that causes a network to partition.

Realistic deployments must compensate for transient non-failure behaviors of the system such as message loss, network partitions, and slow processors.

Network Partition using "hierarchical clustering to partition a network into subgroups based on relational strength".

The LOCUS system was designed to be able to cope with network partitioning - one or more nodes becoming disconnected from the rest of the system.

Coda allows all servers to receive updates, allowing for a greater availability of server data in the event of network partitions, a case which AFS cannot handle.

The original 3PC algorithm assumes a fail-stop model, where processes fail by crashing and crashes can be accurately detected, and does not work with network partitions or asynchronous communication.

XtreemFS' outstanding feature is full (all components) and real (all failure scenarios, including network partitions) fault tolerance, while maintaining POSIX file system semantics.

Network partitions can split a group into two or more disjoint subgroups, creating the risk of split brain behavior, in which some group members take a decision (perhaps, to launch the rocket) without knowing that some other partition of the group has taken a different, conflicting decision.

If the old peer comes back online within a certain period of time and that peer's group also voted the event to be a "network partition", then the peers should re-establish their mirroring relationship and only update changes, rather than re-mirroring the entire volume to a brand new node.

If a majority of peers also see the same problem, all nodes should assume that they are in a network partition scenario and sit tight to wait for the network to be restored *or* for operators to mash the "building B really was hit by a tornado and destroyed" button to release full-scale re-mirroring.