network partition
a pattern of message omission where a network link loses all messages between two sets of nodes
network partition in a sentence
“A network partition split the cluster into two halves that could not communicate.”
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pause
a process halts for some duration then resumes; in asynchronous systems, pauses can be indefinitely long
storage corruption
a storage device silently returns incorrect data for reads without signaling any error
misdirected write
data is written to the wrong storage location, overwriting unrelated existing data
misdirected read
a storage device returns data from the wrong location rather than the address requested
concurrent testing
tests that execute multiple logical operations simultaneously across system nodes to expose race conditions
constraint programming
encodes an operation history as a constraint problem for a SAT solver to find a legal interpretation