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Logging

All the changes to the snapshot metadata have to be logged to the log disk before writing anything to the disk. When a node X fails, some other node that shares the log disk with X can replay the log of X. When all nodes in the group fail, and some nodes come up, the first node that comes up can check all the log disks that it shares with other nodes in that group and replay the logs that are dirty.



Suresh Siddha 2001-09-13