
Distributed Recovery Management
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Network partition – Owing to communication link failure, it may happen that the entire
network gets split into two or more partitions, known as network partition. In this case,
all sites in the same partition can communicate with each other, but cannot communicate
with sites in the other partitions.
In some cases, it is very diffi cult to distinguish the type of failure that has occurred in the system.
Generally, the system identifi es that a failure has occurred and initiates the appropriate technique
for recovery from the failure.
10.3 Steps Followed after a Failure
A distributed recovery manager must ensur ...