From f9157a25a5bac71efcc6c8bdf6fe2fa2f2320688 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xiang Li <xiang.li@coreos.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:42:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] update readme

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 README.md | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2d2c0d90f..f1c55d556 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discover
 * Fast: benchmarked 1000s of writes/s per instance
 * Reliable: Properly distributed using Raft
 
-Etcd is written in go and uses the [raft][raft] paxos implementation for high availability. 
+Etcd is written in go and uses the [raft][raft] consensus algorithm to manage replicated
+log for high availability. 
 
 See [go-etcd][go-etcd] for a native go client. Or feel free to just use curl, as in the examples below.