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Hi. I'm please to announce POHMEL high performance network filesystem. POHMELFS stands for Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System. Development status can be tracked in filesystem section [1]. This is a high performance network filesystem with local coherent cache of data and metadata. Its main goal is distributed parallel processing of data. Network filesystem is a client transport. POHMELFS protocol was proven to be superior to NFS in lots (if not all, then it is in a roadmap) operations. This release brings following features: * Fast transactions. System will wrap all writings into transactions, which will be resent to different (or the same) server in case of failure. Details in notes [1]. * Failover. It is now possible to provide number of servers to be used in round-robin fasion when one of them dies. System will automatically reconnect to others and send transactions to them. * Performance. Super fast (close to wire limit) metadata operations over the network. By courtesy of writeback cache and transactions the whole kernel archive can be untarred by 2-3 seconds (including sync) over GigE link (wire limit! Not comparable to NFS). Basic POHMELFS features: * Local coherent (notes [5]) cache for data and metadata. * Completely async processing of all events (hard and symlinks are the only exceptions) including object creation and data reading. * Flexible object architecture optimized for network processing. Ability to create long pathes to object and remove arbitrary huge directoris in single network command. * High performance is one of the main design goals. * Very fast and scalable multithreaded userspace server. Being in userspace it works with any underlying filesystem and still is much faster than async ni-kernel NFS one. Roadmap includes: * Server extension to allow storing data on multiple devices (like creating mirroring), first by saving data in several local directories ...
If any thread takes more than one kmap() at a time, it is deadlockable. Because there is a finite pool of kmaps. Everyone can end up holding one or more kmaps, then waiting for someone else to release one. Duplicating page_waitqueue() is bad. Exporting it is probably bad too. Better would be to help us work out why the core kernel infrastructure is unsuitable, then make it suitable. --
Hi Andrew. It never takes the whole LAST_PKMAP maps. So the same can be applied to any user who kmaps at least one page - while user waits for free slot, it can be reused by someone else and so on. But it can be speed issue, on 32 bit machine with 8gb of ram essentially all pages were highmem and required mapping, so this does slows things down (probably a lot), so I will extend writeback path of the POHMELFS not to kmap pages, but instead use ->sendpage(), which if needed will map page one-by-one. Current approach when page is mapped and then copied looks really beter since the only one sending function is used When ->writepage() is used, it has to wait until page is written (remote side sent acknowledge), so if multiple pages are being written simultaneously we either have to allocate shared structure or use per-page wait. Right now there are transactions (and they will be used for all operations eventually), so this waiting can go away. It is exactly the same logic which lock_page() uses. Will lock_page_killable()/__lock_page_killable() be exported to modules? -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
Maybe, if there's a need. I see no particular problem with that. --
Except that we can interrupt waiting and have a timeout, which is allowed there (page will be unlocked sometime in the future, but we Every good boys, who write own ->writepages() and locks pages there, want that. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
Actually CIFS uses the same logic: maps multiple pages in wrteback path and release them after received reply. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
Yes. Only a pagevec at a time, though... apparently 14 is a small enough number not to bite too many people in practice? sage --
Well, POHMELFS can use up to 90 out of 512 or 1024 on x86, but that just moves a problem a bit closer. IMHO problem can be in fact, that copy can be more significant overhead than per page sockt lock and direct DMA (I belive most of the GigE and above (and of course RDMA) links have scatter-gather and RX checksumming), it has to be tested, so I will change writeback path for POHMELFS to test things. If there will not be any performance degradataion (and I believe there will not be, as long as no improvements, since tests were always network bound), I will use that approach. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
In practice you need a large number of threads performing writeout to trigger this. iirc that's how it was demonstrated back in the 2.4 days. Say, thousands of processes/threads doing write+fsync to separate files. --
This continues to be a neat and interesting project :) Where is the best place to look at client<->server protocol? Are you planning to support the case where the server filesystem dataset does not fit entirely on one server? What is your opinion of the Paxos algorithm? Jeff --
Hi. Hmm, in sources I think, I need to kick myself to write a somewhat good spec for the next release. Basically protocol contains of fixed sized header (struct netfs_cmd) and attached data, which size is embedded into above header. Simple commands are finished here (essentially all except write/create commands), you can check them in approrpiate address space/inode operations. Transactions follow netlink (which is very ugly but exceptionally extendible) protocol: there is main header (above structure), which holds size of the embedded data, which can be dereferenced as header/data parts, where each inner header corresponds to any command (except transaction header). So one can pack (upto 90 pages of data or different commands on x86, this is limit of the page size devoted to headers) requested number of commands into single 'frame' and submit it to system, which will care about atomicity of that request in regards of Sure. First by allowing whole object to be placed on different servers (i.e. one subdir is on server1 and another on server2), probably in the future there will be added support for the same object being distributed to different servers (i.e. half of the big file on server1 and another It is slow. But it does solve failure cases. So far POHMELFS does not work as distributed filesystem, so it should not care about it at all, i.e. at most in the very nearest future it will just have number of acceptors in paxos terminology (metadata servers in others) without need for active dynamical reconfiguration, so protocol will be greatly reduced, with addition of dynamical metadata cluster extension protocol will have to be extended. As practice shows, the smaller and simpler initial steps are, the better results eventually become :) -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
I feel you have glossed over the more difficult parts of transactions Yours does sound a very interesting project. Do you know how it compares with NFSv4 for performance? I think that has some similar I think you are right. I am struggling with the opposite approach (too big steps, trying to be too clever with algorithms) on a similar project! That said, I did try simpler steps earlier, and it worked but showed a lot of tricky problems. Fwiw, I've been working on what started as a distributed database that is coming to be a filesystem too. It has many qualities of both, hopefully the best ones. I'm aiming for high LAN file performance similar to what you report with POHMELFS and would expect from any modern fs, while also supporting database style transactions and coherent queries, in a self-organising distributed system that handles LAN/WAN/Internet each at their best. Mention of Paxos stirred me to reply - a relative of that is in there somewhere. I have a long way to go before a release. If anyone is working on something similar, I would be delighted to hear from them. It scares me that I'm actually trying to do this. But very exciting it is too. It seems there's quite a bit of interesting work on Linux in this area right now, with BTRFS and CRFS too. -- Jamie --
NFSv4 does not use similar caching scheme, but it has interesting batching abilities for bulk data transfer. CRFS was originally a source of inspiration for this project (before it was opened, we had some talk with Zach Brown, so I decided that it worth deeper investigation and started this FS). CRFS performance is also very good, but the fact, that The more we develop, more problems arises, so it is possible (and I had such situation), when very complex, but solvable problem, during development translates into multiple problems of the same complexity, which takes more and more time... Essentially this can be solved, until something is dropped and added when other things are completed. For example there is a really interesting lockless algorithm for storing path cache in the POHMELFS, but implementation is really complex, so I I belive that (only block?) FS which exports its structure in database accessible way, i.e. ability to search objects not only by name key and assign that new keys similar to how it is done in database, but not via assign_xattr(search(name)), is a very interesting and useful approach. Also the more I follow general purpose fs developments, the more I become sure that they (general purpose) will never be the best on any given workload, and instead special purpose (like databasefs or Scares problems which we can not solve, this one kind of increases Yeah, probably this is time to move further in given area, so lots of interesting new developments. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
Hi, I am currently working on mysqlfs which is a fuse fs which can be used in conjunction with mysql-ndb cluster. You can find the details here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlfs/ and a howto (in german, though) here: http://www.netz-guru.de/2008/04/03/mysqlfs-mit-mysql-ndb-cluster-als-verteiltes-dateis... It is working quite well, but still lacks of caching which makes it slow if your connection between the DB-servers have high latency/many hops. I don't know BTRFS nor CRFS or POHMELFS but i will take a look at them. Hope you'll find that usefull. -- Florian Wiessner --
Hi. Did FUSE start to make a fiendship with performance? Last time I saw it, they hated each other... Caching actually useful not only on slow, but also very fast links because of its ability to batch data and greatly reduce latencies of reply-request protocols, which in turn (for that protocols) greatly increases performance. If you are using async processing (like POHMELFS, iirc it is the only such approach in networked fs, cifs/smbfs and others wait after request is sent and only then proceed with the next one) that will allow to drain the cache very quickly and proceed with the next data set. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
For writes, Paxos is actually more or less optimal (in the non-failure cases, at least). Reads are trickier, but there are ways to keep that fast as well. FWIW, Ceph extends basic Paxos with a leasing mechanism to keep reads fast, consistent, and distributed. It's only used for cluster state, though, not file data. I think the larger issue with Paxos is that I've yet to meet anyone who wants their data replicated 3 ways (this despite newfangled 1TB+ disks not having enough bandwidth to actualy _use_ the data they store). Similarly, if only 1 out of 3 replicas is surviving, most people want to be able to read their data, while Paxos demands a majority to ensure it is correct. (This is why Paxos is typically used only for critical cluster configuration/state, not regular data.) sage --
Hi Sage. Well, it depends... If we are talking about single node perfromance, then any protocol, which requries to wait for authorization (or any approach, which waits for acknowledge just after data was sent) is slow. If we are talking about agregate parallel perfromance, then its basic protocol with 2 messages is (probably) optimal, but still I'm not I.e. having more than single node to be failed? Google uses 3-way replication, but I can not see any factor, which will force people from lowering failure recovering expectations. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
Look up "one-phase commit" or even "zero-phase commit". (The terminology is cheating a bit.) As I've understood it, all commit protocols have a step where each node guarantees it can commit if asked and node failure at that point does not invalidate the guarantee if the node recovers (if it can't maintain the guarantee, the node doesn't recover in a technical sense and a higher level protocol may reintegrate the node). One/zero-phase commit extends that to guaranteeing a certain amounts and types of data can be written before it knows what the data is, so write messages within that window are sufficient for global commits. Guarantees can be acquired asynchronously in advance of need, and can have time and other limits. These guarantees are no different in principle from the 1-bit guarantee offered by the "can you commit" phase of other commit protocols, so they aren't as weak as they seem. Now combine it with a quorum protocol like Paxos, you can commit with async guarantees from a subset of nodes. Guarantees can be piggybacked on earlier requests. There, single node write performance with quorum robustness. -- Jamie --
If I understood that, client has to connect to all servers and send data there, so that after single reply things got committed. That is definitely not the issue, when there are lots of servers. That can be the case if client connects to some gate server, which in turn broadcasts data further, that is how I plan to implement things at first. Another approach, which seems also intersting is leader election (per client), so that leader would broadcast all the data. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
That means you are less optimal than the direct-to-storage-server path in NFSv4.1, then........ <waves red flag in front of the bull> If access controls permit, the ideal would be for the client to avoid an intermediary when storing data. The client only _needs_ a consensus reply that their transaction was committed. They don't necessarily need an intermediary to do the boring data transfer work. Jeff --
No, server to connect is the server, which stores data. By addition it will also store it to some other places according to distributed Sure the less number of machines between client and storage we have, the faster and more robust we are. Either client has to write data to all servers, or it has to write it to one and wait utill that server will broadcast it further (to quorum or any number of machines it wants). Having pure client to think to what servers it has to put its data is a bit wrong (if not saying more), since it has to join not only data network, but also control one, to check that some servers are alive or not, to be able not to race, when server is recovering and so on... -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
Quite true. It is a trade-off: additional complexity in the client permits reduced latency and increased throughput. But is the additional complexity -- including administrative and access control headaches -- worth it? As you say, the "complex" clients must join the data network. Hardware manufacturers are putting so much effort into zero-copy and RDMA. The client-to-many approach mimics that trend by minimizing latency and data copying (and permitting use of more exotic or unusual hardware). But the client-to-many approach is not as complex as you make out. A key attribute is simply for a client to be able to store new objects and metadata on multiple servers in parallel. Once the data is stored redundantly, the metadata controller may take quick action to commit/abort the transaction. You can even shortcut the process further by having the replicas send confirmations to the metadata controller. That said, the biggest distributed systems seem to inevitably grow their own "front end server" layer. Clients connect to N caching/application servers, each of which behaves as you describe: the caching/app server connects to the control and data networks, and performs the necessary load/store operations. Personally, I think the most simple thing for _users_ is where semi-smart clients open multiple connections to an amorphous cloud of servers, where the cloud is self-optimizing, self-balancing, and self-repairing internally. Jeff --
Well, that's how things exist today - POHMELFS client connects to number of servers and can send data to all of them (currently it doest that for only 'active' server, i.e. that which was not failed, but that can be trivially changed). It should be extended to receive 'add/remove server to the group' command and liekly that's all (modulo other todo items which are not yet resolved). Then that group becomes quorum and client has to get response from them. Kind of that... What I do not like, is putting lots of logic into client, like following inner server state changes (sync/not sync, quorum election and so on). With above dumb scheme it should not, but some other magic in the server land will tell client with whom to start working. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
The client need not (and should not) worry about quorum, elections or server cloud state management. The client need only support these basics: some method of read balancing, parallel data writes, and a method to retrieve a list of active servers. The server cloud and/or cluster management can handle the rest, including telling the client if the transaction failed or succeeded (as it must), or if it should store to additional replicas before the transaction may proceed. Jeff --
Look up Bittorrent, and bandwidth diffusion generally. Also look up multicast trees. Sometimes it's faster for a client to send to many servers; sometimes it's faster to send fewer and have them relayed by intermediaries - because every packet takes time to transmit, and network topologies aren't always homogenous or symmetric. Leader election is part of standard Paxos too :-) If you have a single data forwarder elected per client, then if one client generates a lot of traffic, you concentrate a lot of traffic to one network link and one CPU. Sometimes it's better to elect several leaders per client, and hash requests onto them. You diffuse CPU and traffic, but reduce opportunities to aggregate transactions into fewer message. It's an interesting problem, again probably with different optimal results for different networks. -- Jamie --
Definitely. "several leaders" aka partitioning is also becoming increasing paired with efforts at enhancing locality of reference. Both Google and Amazon sort their distributed tables lexographically, which [ideally] results in similar data being stored near each other. A bit of an improvement over partitioning-by-hash, anyway, for some workloads. Jeff --
As with B-trees on disks, and in-memory structures, application knowledge of locality is very much worth passing to the storage layer. -- Jamie --
Yep, having multiple connections is worse for high-performance networks and is a great win for long latency links. If client to server connection is slower than server-server one, than having single gate server, which broadcasts data to others is a win over multiple connection to different servers. But if communication is roughly the same over all links, than... I think I agree that client-to-many is a better approach, since perormance of client-to-many will be the same as client-to-gate-to-others (since link is the same everywhere), but if gate server fails, reconnection and other management tasks introduce huge latency here (new gate server, new connection and so on), while Probably idea I described in other mail to Jeff, when client just connects to number of servers and can process command of adding/dropping server from that group, and balances reading between them and sends writes/metadata update to all of them, and all logic behind that group selection is hidded in the servers cloud, is the best choice... -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
Not just long latency. If you have a low latency link which is very busy, perhaps a client doing lots of requests, or doing other things, I think that's a fine choice, but it doesn't solve difficult problems. You still have to implement the server cloud. :-) It's possible that implementing server cloud protocol _and_ simple client protocol may be more work than just server cloud protocol. I'm not sure. Thoughts welcome. -- Jamie --
If that would not be dificult problem, it would not be interesting at Well, getting that client protocol is mostly ready, and its design allows infinite (blah!) extensions and extremely (blah!) flexible processing, we are close to just difficult server one :) -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
That's what I thought when I had my system working fine with just one server. The client was very simple. :-) Since, I learned that my clients need to have parts of the complex server protocol for fast, safe transactions (think ACID (or ACI)) over relatively slow links, especially with multiple servers. Also, efficiently recovering from a link/server failure, when clients have large zero-latency caches (using leases), appears similar to the synchronising protocol between recovering servers. But, on the bright side, these things are only necessary for performance in scenarios you might not encounter or care about :-) I'm finding it's a really interesting but large problem. -- Jamie --
That's a part of the 'simple' client protocol already, there are transactions, which are only committed completed, when server replies that they are, there is also failover reconnection and timeout detection features as long as switching to different servers in case of failure. Yes, it is a bit more than 'simple' protocol, but I think that's what it Yeah, it is far from 'small' problem :) Really simple protocol was in the first version, and it was also fast, but yes, it was rather miserable from failure point of view. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
For several common Paxos usages, you can obtain consensus guarantees well in advance of actually needing that guarantee, making the entire process quite a bit more async and parallel. Sort of a "write ahead" for consensus. Jeff --
That's a lovely concise summary. It seems all the classical texts on two-phase commit have made it over-complicated all along. "write ahead consensus" is both faster and simpler in many respects. -- Jamie --
Quite true, but IMO single-node performance is largely an academic exercise today. What production system is run without backups or I think part of Paxos' attraction is that it is provably correct for the chosen goal, which historically has not been true for hand-rolled consensus algorithms often found these days. There are a bunch of variants (fast paxos, byzantine paxos, fast byzantine paxos, etc., etc.) based on Classical Paxos which make improvements in the performance/latency areas. There is even a Paxos Commit which appears to be more efficient than the standard transaction two-phase commit used by several existing clustered databases. Jeff --
If cluster is made out of 2-3-4-10 machines, it does want to get maximum single node performance. But I agree that in some cases we have to sacrifice of something in order to find something new. And the larger cluster becomes, for more things we can close eyes on. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
With the right topology and hardware, you can get _faster_ than single node performance with as many nodes as you like, except when there is a node/link failure and the network pauses briefly to reorganise - and even that is solvable. Consider: Client <-> A <-> B <-> C <-> D A to D are servers. <-> are independent network links. Each server has hardware which can forward a packet at the same time it's being received like the best switches (wormhole routing), while performing minor transformations on it (I did say the right hardware ;-) Client sends a request message. It is forwarded along the whole chain, and reaches D with just a few microseconds of delay compared with A. All servers process the message, and produce a response in about the same time. However, (think of RAID) they don't all process all data in the message, just part they are responsible for, so they might do it faster than a single node would processing the whole message. The aggregate response is a function of all of them. D sends its response. C forwards that packet while modifying the answer to include its own response. B, A do the same. The answer at Client arrives just a few microseconds later than it would have with just a single server. If desired, arrange it in a tree to reduce even the microseconds. Such network hardware is quite feasible, indeed quite easy with an FPGA based NIC. Enjoy the speed :-) -- Jamie --
This is the core reason why I am so interested in distributed storage... a single storage device is usually slower than network wire speed. Multiple nodes helps remove that limitation and max out the network. I want to be able to stream data _faster_ than a single hard drive can handle :) Jeff --
In that case yes, network will _not_ be saturated and multiple simultaneous streams will have a win, but POHMELFS client design was specially created to increase network performance as much as possible, since we can increase storage speed (add more drives, more RAM for caches, better hardware), but can not easily increase network bandwidth. But, as was already noted, even being network bound, client-to-many is likely a better solution from other points of view (like management and/ro failure cases). -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
Actually experiments with async processing in POHMELFS lead to the conclusion, that if protocol waits until request is completed and does not proceed with the next one (like CIFS and somewhat NFS), such design does not scale to multiple parallel IOs. That from different angle shows benefits of caching and aiming at getting as much performance as possible from single node connection :) -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
And if client-server link is fully saturated by messages we do not win :) We also lose if client-server is slower than server-server... I completely agree that there are cases where each approach is more beneficial, and likely client-to-many os better in terms of management and/or failover, but for speed there is always a different side of the coin. -- Evgeniy Polyakov --
For critical metadata which is needed to access a lot of data, it's done: even ext3 replicates superblocks. These days there are content and search indexes, and journals. They aren't replication but are related in some ways since parts of the data are duplicated and voting protocols can feed into that. There's also RAID6 and similar parity/coding. The data is not fully replicated, saving space, but the coordination is similar to N>=3 way replication. Now apply that over a network. Or even local disks, if (Generalising to any "quorum" (majority vote) protocol). That's true if you require that all results are guaranteed consistent or blocked, in the event of any kind of network failure. But if you prefer incoherent results in the event of a network split (and those are often mergable later), and only want to protect against media/node failures to the best extent possible at any given time, then quorum protocols can gracefully degrade so you still have access without a majority of working nodes. That is a very useful property. (I think it more closely mimics the way some human organisations work too: we try to coordinate, but when communications are down, we do the best we can and sync up later.) In that model, neighbour sensing is used to find the largest coherency domains fitting a set of parameters (such as "replicate datum X to N nodes with maximum comms latency T"). If the parameters are able to be met, quorum gives you the desired robustness in the event of node/network failures. During any time while the coherency parameters cannot be met, the robustness reduces to the best it can do temporarily, and recovers when possible later. As a bonus, you have some timing guarantees if they are more important. This is pretty much the same as RAID durability. You have robustness against failures, still have access in the event of disk failures, and degraded robustness (and performance) temporarily while awaiting a new disk and resynchronising it. -- ...
Right. In my case, I require guaranteed consistent results for critical cluster state, and use (slightly modified) Paxos for that. For file data, I leverage that cluster state to still maintain perfect consistency in most failure scenarios, while also degrading gracefully to a read/write access to a single replica. When problem situations arise (e.g., replicating to A+B, A fails, read/write to just B for a while, B fails, A recovers), an administrator can step in and explicitly indicate we want to relax consistency to continue (e.g., if B is found to be unsalvageable and a stale A is the Anything that silently relaxes consistency like that scares me. Does anybody really do that in practice? sage --
Well, there's Amazon Dynamo, a distributed system that places most importance on writes succeeding, if inconsistent. They choose to relax consistency up front, and on the backend absorb the cost of merging multiple versions of objects: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html (full paper) Jeff --
I'm doing it on a 2000 node system across a country. There are so many links down at any given time, we have to handle long stretches of inconsistency, and have strategies for merging local changes when possible to reduce manual overhead. But we like opportunistic consistency so that people at site A can phone people at site B and view/change the same things in real time if a path between them is up and fast enough (great for support and demos), otherwise their actions are queued or refused depending on policy. It makes sense to configure which data and/or operations require global consistency or block, and which data it's ok to modify locally and merge automatically in a netsplit scenario. Think DVCS during splits and coherent when possible. E.g. as a filesystem, during netsplits you might configure the system to allow changes to /home/* locally if global coherency is down. If all changes (or generally, transaction traces) to /home/user1 are in just one coherent subgroup, on recovery they can be distributed silently to the others, unaffected by changes to /home/user2 elsewhere. But if multiple separated coherent subgroups all change /home/user1, recovery might be configured to flag them as conflicts, queue them for manual inspection, and maybe have a policy for the values used until a person gets involved. Or instead of paths you might distinguish on user ids, or by explicit flags in requests (you should really allow that anyway). Or by tracing causal relationships requiring programs to follow some rules (see "virtual synchrony"; the rule is "don't depend on hidden communications"). That's a policy choice, but in some systems, typically those with many nodes and fluctuating communications, it's really worth it. It increases some kinds of robustness, at cost of others. -- Jamie --
I've seen clusters in the field that planned for this -- they don't want This isn't necessarily true -- it's quite easy for most applications to come up with an alternate method for ensuring correctness of retrieved data, if one assumes Paxos consensus was achieved during the write-data phase earlier in time. Checksumming is a common solution, but not the only one. Domain- or app-specific solution, as noted, of course. Yep, I'm working on a config daemon a la Chubby or zookeeper, based on Paxos, that does just this. :) Jeff --
You mean if, say, some verifiable metadata or a trusted third party stores that checksum? Sure. This is just pushing the what-has-committed information to some other party, though, who will presumably face the same problem of requiring a majority for verifiable correctness. This is more or less what most people do in practice... using Paxos for critical state Cool. Do you have a URL? I'd be interested in seeing how you diverge from classic paxos. For Ceph's monitor daemon, the main requirements (besides strict correctness guarantees) were scalable (distributed) read access, and a history of state changes. Nothing too unusual. sage --
More like receiving a guarantee of consensus (just like any signature on Is there a URL? Yes. http://linux.yyz.us/projects/cld.html It it useful? No. It's just a skeleton code right now. I am experimenting with various Paxos algorithms as we speak, which is why it's fresh in my mind at the moment. I also forgot to mention hyperspace, which is another up-and-coming player in this area, alongside Chubby and zookeeper. Jeff --
It's the 'single node' part that concerns me. As long as that node is ensuring there is consensus behind the scenes before handing out said signature. Otherwise you can't be sure you're not getting an old signature for old data.. This is more or less what I ended up doing. Since the workload is mostly-read, the paxos leader gives non-leaders leases to process reads in parallel, and new elections or state changes wait if necessary to ensure old leases are revoked or expire before any new leases on new values are issued. sage --
My design has something similar, but I think more like MOESI protocol analogous to CPUs. There are read leases which are revoked by explicit confirmation or waiting for them to expire, but that's only required when serialisation forces a particular access order, and it can be speculated around. Like MOESI, it adapts between mostly-read and mostly-write workloads. -- Jamie --


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(20130617) → Department of Educational Administration faculty member, Dr Michelle Prytula, has been appointed to a five-year term as Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies, Partnerships, and Research) of Education in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr Prytula is a valuable member of the Department, a strong advocate of teacher education, and an internationally recognized researcher in professional teacher learning. Serving as an educator, vice-principal, and principal in the K-12 system for 15 years in advance of her entry into academia, Dr Prytula brings into her new position valuable experience and a solid commitment to improved student and teacher learning in Saskatchewan. Dr Prytula begins her term as Associate Dean on July 1, 2013. Please help the Department offer our congratulations and best wishes to our friend and colleague. |
Educational Administration Graduate New Dean of Education at Brandon University |
(20130615) → Department of Educational Administration alumna, Dr Heather Duncan, has been appointed to a five-year term as Dean of Education at Brandon University. Dr Duncan completed her PhD in the Department, and has more recently been Associate Professor and Program Coordinator in Educational Leadership at the University of Wyoming. Recipient of the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal, the Brandon University Gold Medal, and the University of Wyoming Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, Dr Duncan is also a skilled artist. She was a strong member of our graduate cohort, whose contributions to Departmental life and teaching we look back upon fondly. Dr Duncan begins her term as Dean on July 1, 2013. Please help the Department offer our sincere congratulations to our friend and colleague. |
Department of Educational Administration Welcomes a New Faculty Member |
(20130426) → The Department is very pleased to announce the addition of Jeff Baker to our faculty complement. A graduate of the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP) at the University of Saskatchewan, Professor Baker brings extensive experience teaching internationally (in New Zealand, Taiwan, and Turkey). He obtained his MEd in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, and is presently completing his PhD in Indigenous Science Education at the University of British Columbia. In his recent role as Faculty Development Specialist in Aboriginal Programs at the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness, Professor Baker has been building relationships with the local community and offering workshops in Indigenous education. Well known within the College of Education at the U of S, he has worked to establish a pilot professional development programming in Aboriginal education for faculty and staff, looking to expand this programming throughout the wider University community. Professor Baker formally takes the position of Chair in Aboriginal Educational Administration on July 1, 2013. Please help the Department offer our congratulations to our friend and new colleague. |
Professor Sheila Carr-Stewart to Receive 2013 Provost's Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Education |
(20130415) → Head and Graduate Chair in the Department of Educational Administration, Dr Sheila Carr-Stewart will receive the 2013 Provost's Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Education. The Provost's Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Education annually recognizes an outstanding teacher who makes an exceptional contribution to Aboriginal Learning at the University of Saskatchewan. There are three avenues to demonstrating success: • teaching aboriginal students Dr Carr-Stewart will receive an award of $2,000 to be used to support a project or scholarship in teaching and learning, and will be recognized at a Celebration of Teaching hosted by the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness. The Department would like to offer our heart-felt congratulations to our friend and colleague. |
Professor Emeritus Murray Scharf Receives Queen's Jubilee Medal |
(20130121) → Former Dean of the College of Education, former Head of the Department, former Director of the Saskatchewan Educational Leadership Unit, and Professor Emeritus in Educational Administration Dr Murray Scharf received the Queen's Jubilee Medal on Monday, January 21 in Regina. Since retirement in 2006, Dr Scharf has been an active member of the Saskatoon community, serving as Corporate Secretary for the Saskatoon Council on Aging and engaged in support of Rotary. In his biography of Dr Scharf, Dr Rick Schwier, Head of the Department of Curriculum Studies, summarized a few of his many accolades: Murray has received many honours and appointments over the years. He has received the University of Saskatchewan Award For Distinction in Extension and Public Service, the [125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada] Medal from the [federal] government for work in rural education, the [Saskatchewan Council on Educational Administration] Administrator of the Decade Award, and an honorary life membership in the International Congress on Education for Teaching, an UNESCO affiliated organization. The Department would like to offer our heart-felt congratulations to our friend and colleague. |
Saskatchewan Principals' Short Course |
(20130120) → Information regarding the 2013 Saskatchewan Principals' Short Course is now available online. Registration is now open. Thank you to Dr Michelle Prytula and Educational Administration graduate student Paul McTavish for all of their work in support of this valuable event. |
Graduate Academic Awards |
(20130119) → The College of Education Academic Awards Day was held on January 19 at the German Concordia Club in Saskatoon. Several Graduate Academic Awards were received by graduate students in the Department of Educational Administration's doctoral programme. Tracy Dollansky, Anabit Falihi, David Francis, and Taneisha Ingleton received the Education Graduate Bursary. Irene Oakes received the TD Bank Financial Group Aboriginal Graduate Bursary in Education and the Gordon McCormack Memorial Graduate Scholarship for Native Students. Both Oakes and Ingleton received the Saskatchewan Educational Leadership Unit Award. The Lownsborough Memorial Scholarhsip in Education was received by Dollansky, Falihi, Francis, Ingleton, and Oakes, as well as by Barb Gustafson, Natasha Hubbard Murdoch, Theresa Papp, and Cindy Sherban. Dollansky, Falihi, and Ingleton received the University of Saskatchewan Graduate Scholarship. The Department would like to offer our congratulations to all of the students who received awards. |
Department of Educational Administration Awarded Editorship of the Journal of Educational Administration and Foundations |
(20121215) → The Department of Educational Administration is pleased to announce its success in a recent bid for the editorship of the Journal of Educational Administration and Foundations (JEAF). Beginning in January 2013, the editor's office will be transfered from its current home in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, where our colleague Dr Janice Wallace has successfully built the Journal's prominence over the past decade. First on the agenda for the Journal's editorial team will be the implementation of a web-based presence in an effort to streamline submission, review, and distribution processes. The Department and the Journal look forward to future contributions of scholarly works by colleges and graduate students alike. |
Dr Michelle Prytula Accepts 2012 Advancing Professional Learning Award |
(20121210) → Congratulations to Dr Michelle Prytula, who accepted the 2012 Advancing Professional Learning Award in Boston at the Learning Forward Annual Conference on December 4, 2012. The Award honours one individual for his or her contributions to demonstrate and document the impact and results of professional learning in education. |


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CreInvestEd is pleased to announce the launch of a new 10 module online course that teaches investors how to invest in commercial real estate in a post 2008 economy.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kristen Stewart ditched her crutches to hobble onstage as an Oscar presenter, appearing bored and disheveled in the process.
She and Daniel Radcliffe handled one of the less glamorous awards for production design. Stewart read her lines with a slouchy insouciance.
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By: Alex Hayes
Updated: April 11, 2012
Harmon has traveled all over Texas getting ready for the release of his newest album sometime this Fall. Also, check out the singer's full biography on his website.
Zach will be LIVE at the Lucky Mule this Friday, April 13th with Jonny Lee.
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Suns Strokes: Road woes continue in loss to Timberwolves
Originally published: Dec 29, 2012 - 9:07 pm
Sure, you could read the box score and know who won, but we all know that won't tell you everything that happened in a basketball game. So, we will give you Suns Strokes, providing you with the analysis, quotes and notes from the Suns' 111-107 loss to the Timberwolves on December 29.
The Good:
Luis Scola delivered an impressive offensive performance for the Suns. He had a double-double of 33 points and 10 rebounds.
Shannon Brown added 21 points and Jared Dudley had 18 for Phoenix.
The Bad:
The Suns lost their fifth straight game and fell to a dismal 2-13 on the road this season.
Phoenix couldn't contain Nikola Pekovic, who had 28 points and 11 rebounds, and Kevin Love who added 23 points and 18 boards for the T-wolves.
� Goran Dragic had a strong effort in his return to the lineup, scoring 16 points and adding 12 assists.
� The Suns turned the ball over just five times in the loss.
� Phoenix continued to struggle from behind the three-point arc, making only two of their 17 attempts.
Up Next:
The Suns will look to salvage their three-game road trip when they head to Oklahoma City to take on the Thunder on Monday. The game is scheduled to tip-off at 6:00 p.m. MST.
- Jared Dudley, Suns forward - Tuesday May 21Dudley talks NBA Playoffs and Suns coaching search with Doug & Wolf
- Alvin Gentry, former Suns head coach - Tuesday May 14Gentry talks to Doug & Wolf about the NBA Playoffs, the Suns coaching search and his future
- Denise McDonough, Ryan McDonough's mom - Friday May 10Mrs. McDonough talks to Doug & Wolf about raising the new Suns GM
- Melinda Dudley, Jared Dudley's mom - Friday May 10Mrs. Dudley tells Doug & Wolf what it was like raising the Suns fan favorite
- Tom Chambers, Suns legend - Friday May 10Chambers tells Doug & Wolf who he'd like to see hired as the new head coach of the Suns


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Release Date: TBA
As in Diablo II, multiplayer games will be possible using Blizzard's Battle.net service, with many of the new features developed for StarCraft II also available in Diablo III. Players will be able to drop in and out of sessions of co-operative play with others.
An enhanced quest system, a random level generator, and a random encounter generator are slated for use in order to ensure the game provides different experiences when replayed. Overall, the game will include both static and randomly generated levels. Additionally, there will be class-specific quests to go along with the main storyline quests. Blizzard originally planned to have in-game cutscenes, but decided these would divert from the gameplay and decided against them. Three new armor pieces will be available: shoulder plates, arm-guards and leggings.
Unlike previous iterations, gold can be picked up merely by touching it, rather than having to manually pick it up. One of the new features intended to speed gameplay is that health orbs drop from enemies, replacing the need to have a potion bar, which itself is replaced by a skill bar that allows a player to assign quick bar buttons to skills and spells; previously, players could only assign two skills (one for each mouse button) and had to swap skills with the keyboard or mousewheel. Players can still assign specific attacks to mouse buttons.
Skill runes, another new feature, are skill-modifying items that are randomly dropped by monsters and used across all classes. Rather than changing equippable items as in Diablo II, they are instead attached to skills, often completely changing the gameplay of each skill. Skill runes also have the ability to make one particular spell in each class more powerful, and give the player options as to how the rune will enhance a particular spell. For example, investing skill runes on the wizard's "lightning" can allow the players to make the lightning jump onto additional enemies, or, alternatively, adding the runes with explosion effect blows the enemy up and causes damage to the surrounding area. [Source]
- Explore a fully-realized Sanctuary – the living, breathing gothic fantasy world of Diablo III rendered in gorgeous 3D.
- Battle the unholy forces of the Burning Hells with all-new character classes like the otherworldly Witch Doctor, or with re-imagined warriors from Diablo's past: such as the fierce Barbarian.
- Rain Hell on your enemies wielding the interactive environment as a weapon: lay cunning traps, turn destructible objects against your foes, and use environmental obstacles to your advantage - all powered by the Havoc physics system.
- Experience the intensity of multiplayer Diablo III over an all-new, wickedly-enhanced Battle.net platform with numerous enhancements to make connecting with your friends easier – and cooperative gameplay more fun.
When Deckard Cain returns to the ruins of Tristram's Cathedral seeking clues to new stirrings of evil, a comet from the heavens strikes the very ground where Diablo once entered the world. The comet carries a dark omen in its fiery being and it calls the heroes of Sanctuary to defend the mortal world against the rising powers of the Burning Hells – and even the failing luminaries of the High Heavens itself. [Source]
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Engaging Science in the Life of Your Congregation
With so many issues to discuss, Christians can easily get the feeling that science is always attacking the faith. It is essential to balance such conversations with positive responses to God's creation. After all, the primary response to the natural world in the Bible is to praise the God who made it.
Series: Excerpts from "Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution"
We need to hear stories from others who have wrestled with evolution and Christian faith. What arguments made them change their views on science? How did they hold fast to their relationship with God? The essays in this series will eventually comprise a book, provisionally titled, "Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution."
Searching for Motivated Belief: Introducing John Polkinghorne
Several times in my series of columns about "Science and the Bible," I briefly discussed a few ideas from John Polkinghorne, one of the leading Christian thinkers of our time. Although I presented him mainly as a representative of the "Theistic Evolution" (TE) view, much of his published work is about other topics, several of them largely or entirely unrelated to TE. It's time we got better acquainted with him.
Series: A Faith Journey in a Medical Science Career
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Dissonance and Harmony
People hold clearly discordant points of view, and it would be dishonest to ignore the conflict. Yet some voices emphasize the dissonance without any note of harmony to put it in context. Too often, science and faith becomes a hostile battle of worldviews, sounding angry, dissonant chords even among fellow Christians. But civil, gracious dialogue is possible.
Psalm for the January Thaw
God shows himself not just in the orderliness of nature, but powerfully, joyously and always surprisingly in its beautiful "non-order" as well.
Series: Confronting Our Fears
In this series, U.S. Navy Commander Mike Beidler shares his own personal journey from accepting young-earth creationism to embracing evolutionary creationism.
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We tend to think of creativity in terms of flashes of insight and brilliance, of novelty, and especially of unexpected things bursting upon the scene. But creativity is no less creative and no less remarkable when it proceeds step by step, according to discipline, according to rule.
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As he endeavored to learn more, David was intrigued by Francis Collins book The Language of God because Francis did not present evolution as a rival theory to Christian faith, but as something that described God's method of creation.
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Charles Darwin's personal struggles and ultimate rejection of Christianity are well documented, and people are eager to link his loss of faith to his evolutionary theory. David Lack, on the other hand, began his scientific career as an agnostic, but shortly after publishing his famous book on the evolution of "Darwin's finches", he converted to Christianity.
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Four people face charges in connection with an armed robbery in Fruitland early Saturday morning.
A 28-year-old Delmar man faces charges after he allegedly threw a bottle of bleach at a Wicomico County Sheriff's Office deputy.
The second of three suspects in the armed robbery that occurred Oct. 27 in the 900 block of South Division Street has entered an Alford plea.
As Jacob Liechty prepared to don his graduation attire for the barrage of pictures, it was the beginning of the realization that his four years of work had paid off.
SALISBURY A geographic information systems cooperative at Salisbury University has been contracted to establish a pilot, security program for an American university operating in the Middle East, a first overseas project for the Eastern Shore Regional Geographic Information Systems Cooperative, or ESRGC.
Tom Stevenson, who has worked for just about every department over a quarter-century with the city government, was named interim city administrator Thursday.
One of the Salisbury Police Department's most wanted was located and arrested in a homeless camp earlier this morning.
Jason Bruce, 34, of Salisbury pleaded guilty earlier this month to the charge, filed in connection with a Jan. 21 incident that took place when the coach thought a 16-year-old team member wasn't showing enough effort.
The departing Salisbury city administrator will be earning $2,000 a month in pension payments even as he's paid $133,000 annually as a Colorado community's new city manager.
One of the couple remaining wanted people in the 71 indicted on drug charges in a large-scale drug trafficking organization was recently picked up.
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A fight allegedly began after a 16-year-old Seaford boy threw a hamburger at the driver's side window of an 18-year-old Hebron resident's car.
One of the 71 people indicted in connection with an alleged large-scale drug trafficking organization recently pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine and cocaine base (crack cocaine).
Two brothers face drug charges after 500 bags of suspected heroin were found in the vehicle they were in, police say.
A 42-year-old Delaware man faces charges after authorities say he tried to rob the Temple Hill Motel on South Salisbury Boulevard and then led law enforcement on a chase.
Marquavis Deshonte McCuller, 18, of Millsboro, pleaded guilty in Wicomico County Circuit Court on Monday to conspiracy to commit robbery.
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