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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ succeeded on receipt of responses from a _quorum_, which is a subset of the
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master-eligible nodes in the cluster. The advantage of requiring only a subset
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of the nodes to respond is that it means some of the nodes can fail without
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preventing the cluster from making progress. The quorums are carefully chosen so
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-the cluster does not have a "split brain" scenario where it's partitioned into
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+the cluster does not have a "{wikipedia}/Split-brain_(computing)[split-brain]" scenario where it's partitioned into
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two pieces such that each piece may make decisions that are inconsistent with
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those of the other piece.
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