dhepner@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Dan Hepner) (08/03/90)
From: endrizzi@sctc.com (Michael Endrizzi ) >And the war starts..... Oh, I didn't have in mind any war, and I'll certainly accept that one is free to assert one's own definition of words like "fault tolerant". >Fault Tolerance: A list of faults that will be tolerated and the >post-fault level of service for each fault. The process of tolerating >a fault consists of 3 steps: fault detection, isolation, and recovery. >Fault Tolerant Information Recall: > > 1) Tolerates syntatic faults in databases > 2) Post level of service guarantees data that is > syntatically "closest" to query. > 3) Fault-Detection: implicit and assumed > Fault-Isolation: ??? > Fault-Recovery: Query always returns with "best" answer > available. > >Can I see your definition of fault-tolerance mr. hepner?? >Then we can talk. > > Dreez A widely accepted definition of fault tolerance concerns the ability to continue to provide service in the face of various hardware faults. Dan Hepner