Hi Konrad,

The masters simply use a znode in ZooKeeper to track which is which. This is a 
basic and fundamental mechanism that ZK provides and nothing above that is 
needed. 

Note that you can start masters in non-active mode to enforce that you start 
the active on a node of your choice. 

Lars

On Mar 10, 2012, at 21:04, Konrad Tendera <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> While I was reading some informations about multi-Master environment I 
> started to wondering how the "main" master is elected. As far as I know if 
> e.g. I have 5 Masters only one is "real" Master and the rest are only 
> backups. The main problem is that I couldn't find any larger info about whole 
> process (i.e. how the Master is elected). Maybe You know some blogs or other 
> resources where this issue is described (I suposse that JIRA should help me 
> but it is hard for me to find). Thanks in advance for all your replies.
> 
> KT

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