> You are talking about a primary-partition approach. The 
> literature tells 
> you to shut down members in a non-primary partitions. It is simple to 
> implement, all right. But it reduces overall availability of a 
> distributed system, that's why there are many approaches 
> beyond primary 
> partition in research. But regardless of whether we want to have 
> progress or shutdown on a partition, we need to present to the user a 
> choice. E.g. shut down, continue and merge later etc. This way we can 
> implement both approaches.

Yes, I think we are speaking exactly about the same thing: pluggable policy
to let the application/user choose which is best for its app and if the
network partition is critical for him or not. The primiary partition was
just an example.

Cheers,


sacha



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