Using quorum consensus (another name for the 'minimum_master_node' approach) as default is not possible, since the quorum count is only known by the admin.
There are perfect solutions for consensus but they are not easy to implement, see Byzantine fault tolerance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance or Paxos http://research.google.com/archive/paxos_made_live.html or a more promising approach started lately, RAFT http://raftconsensus.github.io/ Jörg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKdsXoH4FFgKVeJY37aRuurAt7To5jLa%3D0Rp3b--AcGE%3DhEqoA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
