On Dec 6, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Michael Della Bitta <michael.della.bi...@appinions.com> wrote:
> I just rethought what I wrote and it doesn't make any sense. :) > > If you have two remaining nodes left when you have a three node ensemble, > how are ties broken? Or does Zookeeper not resolve ties since it doesn't > tolerate partitions? > > Michael Tie breaking happens when you lose nodes or have partitions. So if you have 3 nodes and its partitioned into 2 and 1, the 2 nodes "wins" and the 1 node is 'dead'. You can't then survive a another partition of the 2 nodes - both 1 node ensembles would be 'dead'. - Mark
