Leases: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Distributed File Cache Consistency, Cary G. Gray and David R. Cheriton, 1989. Old and good. I read this simple paper because it seems to be ground zero for timed leases in distributed systems, in which I’m now intensely interested. The Protocol The authors discuss a distributed file system, e.g. for a network of diskless workstations connected to a shared file server. (The file server itself is a single machine, not replicated. Yes, it’s a...
