SOSP2025

Optimistic Recovery for High-Availability Software via Partial Process State Preservation

Yuzhuo Jing, Yuqi Mai, Angting Cai, Yi Chen, Wanning He, Xiaoyang Qian, Peter M. Chen, Peng Huang

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Abstract

Achieving high availability for modern software requires fast and correct recovery from inevitable faults. This is notoriously difficult. Existing techniques either guarantee correctness by discarding all state but suffer from long downtime, or preserve all state to recover quickly but reintroduce the fault.