More important than that paper are the rest of the papers by Leslie Lamport. Specifically the paper entitled Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distr

More important than that paper are the rest of the papers by Leslie Lamport. Specifically the paper entitled Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System. [1] This is basically the seminal paper on distributed systems and should be required reading for anyone considering playing with distributed locking mechanisms. [1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/time-clocks.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/t...