Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus

Re:Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus by rwinn on Friday September 05, 2014 @11:42AM (#8274490)

So what happens if a network partition occurs where both sides can elect a new leader?

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Re:Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus by pepijndevos on Friday September 05, 2014 @11:46AM (#8274513)

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

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Re:Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus by rwinn on Friday September 05, 2014 @11:54AM (#8274562)

Ah, ok so all nodes needs to be known beforehand

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Re:Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus by knyt on Friday September 05, 2014 @05:29PM (#8276411)

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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Re:Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus by Muzzaf on Friday September 05, 2014 @11:51AM (#8274540)

At most one side can elect a new leader, since there are an odd number of nodes.

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