> Real "CA" systems don't do that--they're "available" because the non-partitioned nodes are still responding. This sounds like a fencepost type of error to me

> Real "CA" systems don't do that--they're "available" because the non-partitioned nodes are still responding. This sounds like a fencepost type of error to me. When you have a partition, you are splitting a single set into two subsets. It may be live/dead or live-net1/live-net2. The point is, in the presence of a partition, there are no non-partitioned nodes.