(Disclaimer: involved with the work linked.)<p>A short version of this tech report is due to appear in the January special issue on repeatable research of the Operating Systems review journal. A pre-print is available at <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ms705/pub/papers/2015-osr-raft.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ms705/pub/papers/2015-osr-raft.pdf</a> (10 pages).
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