Recovery with limited replay: fault-tolerant processes in Linda

Research in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems has focused to a large extent on data surviving various forms of failure. However, in environments where cooperation among processes is important the authors argue that high availability of processes, in addition to their recoverability is crucial. Their specific interest is in the Linda tuple space paradigm. They discuss efficient techniques for making Linda processes recoverable and outline some characteristics of Linda that make it particularly suitable for implementing fault-tolerance. They also propose a simple extension to their recoverable process mechanism that makes processes highly available