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pepijndevos on Sept 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus

This can't happen. You can't devide a cluster in half and still have a majority. See my other post.

rwinn on Sept 5, 2014 [–]

Ah, ok so all nodes needs to be known beforehand

knyt on Sept 5, 2014 | [–]

Yeah, and any changes to the set of nodes (adding or removing a node from the cluster) must be agreed upon by a majority of the existing nodes.

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