On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> and we don't want to lose any updates. That's probably somewhat inaccurate - in this case it's more about consistency - we only ack updates once they are on every replica. So it's not a lost updates issue, but a consistency issue. The lost updates part is more like when you stop the cluster, than you start an old shard or something before starting more recent shards - you don't want that thing to become the leader because the other shards were not up yet. - Mark