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Locks, Sequencers, and Lock-delays
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Let's explore how Chubby implements Locks and Sequencers.

Locks

Each chubby node can act as a reader-writer lock in one of the following two ways:

  • Exclusive: One client may hold the lock in exclusive (write) mode.
  • Shared: Any number of clients may hold the lock in shared (reader) mode.

Sequencer

With distributed systems, receiving messages out of order is a problem; Chubby uses sequence numbers to solve this problem. After acquiring a lock on a file, a client can immediately request a 'Sequencer,' which is an opaque byte string describing the state of the lock:

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