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How do they differ from vector clocks? Just a different implementation of the same thing maybe? Either way, distributed filesystems definitely have the same general concept.

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Vector clocks give a partial ordering. FDB version stamps give a total ordering by having a single process issue them for the entire cluster. There's a good breakdown here: https://blog.the-pans.com/notes-on-the-foundationdb-paper/

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