synchronous update of state and a requirement of more than half the zookeepers alive (and in sync) this makes it impossible to have a "split brain" situation ie when you partition a network and get let's say 3 alive on one side and 2 on the other.
In this case the 2 node networks stops serving request since it's not in majority. 2015-03-03 13:15 GMT+01:00 Aman Tandon <amantandon...@gmail.com>: > But how they handle the failure? > > With Regards > Aman Tandon > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, O. Klein <kl...@octoweb.nl> wrote: > > > Zookeeper requires a majority of servers to be available. For example: > Five > > machines ZooKeeper can handle the failure of two machines. That's why odd > > numbers are recommended. > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Help-needed-to-understand-zookeeper-in-solrcloud-tp4190631p4190633.html > > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >
