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Asynchronous Upgrade and Rollback

In the asynchronous case, no coordination between nodes is required to effect a successful upgrade. Accordingly, assuming that the application architecture can compensate for the unavailability of individual service nodes, techniques used for upgrade of single nodes can be reused. We briefly discuss two of these techniques.



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mukesh agrawal 2003-06-17