Practice - Interaction with the Outside World (The Output Commit Problem)
Practice Questions
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What is the Output Commit Problem?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when actions can't be reversed.
What are in-transit messages?
💡 Hint: Consider messages that are like letters in the mailbox.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is a significant risk of not logging outputs in distributed systems?
💡 Hint: Consider the implications of repeated actions.
True or False: Livelock occurs when processes are stuck and cannot proceed.
💡 Hint: Differentiate between being stuck and failing to progress.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a recovery protocol that incorporates logging of both outputs and inputs during transactions. Discuss its implications.
💡 Hint: What key activities should your protocol include?
Analyze a situation where a rollback might lead to livelock in a banking system transaction processing scenario.
💡 Hint: What happens when transactions depend solely on each other?
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