Working
The snapshot algorithm works like this:
- The observer process (the process taking a snapshot):
- Saves its own local state
- Sends a snapshot request message bearing a snapshot token to all other processes
- A process receiving the snapshot token for the first time on any message:
- Sends the observer process its own saved state
- Attaches the snapshot token to all subsequent messages (to help propagate the snapshot token)
- Should a process that has already received the snapshot token receive a message that does not bear the snapshot token, this process will forward that message to the observer process. This message was obviously sent before the snapshot “cut off” (as it does not bear a snapshot token and thus must have come from before the snapshot token was sent out) and needs to be included in the snapshot.
From this, the observer builds up a complete snapshot: a saved state for each process and all messages “in the ether” are saved.
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