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Posted to commits@flink.apache.org by se...@apache.org on 2015/07/07 12:42:01 UTC
flink git commit: [docs] small fix to the description of the
checkpointing mechanism
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[docs] small fix to the description of the checkpointing mechanism
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Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: 0e21941e3035bf6d8ce7ade067834e1c2e1d6d7d
Parents: 0cb9eb5
Author: Paris Carbone <pa...@kth.se>
Authored: Tue Jul 7 12:25:59 2015 +0200
Committer: Paris Carbone <pa...@kth.se>
Committed: Tue Jul 7 12:40:18 2015 +0200
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/blob/0e21941e/docs/internals/stream_checkpointing.md
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diff --git a/docs/internals/stream_checkpointing.md b/docs/internals/stream_checkpointing.md
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--- a/docs/internals/stream_checkpointing.md
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@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ Kafka exploits this ability.
The central part of Flink's fault tolerance mechanism is drawing consistent snapshots of the distributed data stream and operator state.
These shapshots act as consistent checkpoints to which the system can fall back in case of a failure. Flink's mechanism for drawing these
-snapshots is described in "[Lightweight Asynchronous Snapshots for Distributed Dataflows](http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08603)". It is a modification of the
-[Chandy-Lamport algorithm](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/chandy.pdf) for distributed snapshots, simplified
-and tailored to Flink's needs.
+snapshots is described in "[Lightweight Asynchronous Snapshots for Distributed Dataflows](http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08603)". It is inspired by
+the standard [Chandy-Lamport algorithm](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/chandy.pdf) for distributed snapshots and is
+specifically tailored to Flink's execution model.