The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2599729, abstract = {We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled distributed system. Chubby provides an interface much like a distributed file system with advisory locks, but the design emphasis is on availability and reliability, as opposed to high performance. Many instances of the service have been used for over a year, with several of them each handling a few tens of thousands of clients concurrently. The paper describes the initial design and expected use, compares it with actual use, and explains how the design had to be modified to accommodate the differences.}, address = {Berkeley, CA, USA}, author = {Burrows, Mike}, booktitle = {OSDI '06: Proceedings of the 7th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation}, citeulike-article-id = {2599729}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1298455.1298487}, isbn = {1-931971-47-1}, keywords = {distributed, lock, paxos}, location = {Seattle, Washington}, pages = {335--350}, posted-at = {2008-03-28 02:52:46}, priority = {0}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, title = {The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1298455.1298487}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2599729 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2599729 N2 - We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled distributed system. Chubby provides an interface much like a distributed file system with advisory locks, but the design emphasis is on availability and reliability, as opposed to high performance. Many instances of the service have been used for over a year, with several of them each handling a few tens of thousands of clients concurrently. The paper describes the initial design and expected use, compares it with actual use, and explains how the design had to be modified to accommodate the differences. CY - Seattle, Washington SN - 1-931971-47-1 AD - Berkeley, CA, USA EP - 350 TI - The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems PB - USENIX Association T2 - OSDI '06: Proceedings of the 7th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation SP - 335 KW - distributed KW - lock KW - paxos AU - Burrows, Mike PY - 2006/// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1298455.1298487 ER -