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Losing a majority due to various faults is not equivalent to a network partition. In practice for the systems you are working with it may have a similar effect
by gregwebs 8y ago
Losing a majority due to various faults is not equivalent to a network partition. In practice for the systems you are working with it may have a similar effect (or a much worse one!), but in theory it is possible to recover from these faults in a short amount of time as long as there are no network disruptions.
- adrianmonk 8y agoIn particular, if a node is completely down, that's likely a lot better than a network partition because it eliminates the possibility that it's going to be accepting read and write requests that could have stale data or create inconsistent data (respectively).