On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Jordan Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > If the leader crashes I would assume that quorum is lost for a short time > until a new leader can be elected. Is that true?
yes. > What is the client's view of this? Does the client see an connection > disruption when the leader crashes? All servers stop serving client connections during re-election. The client tcp connections are all closed. Once a new leader is elected and the followers are all in sync the servers start serving client connections again. Also see the "reliability" section here: http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.4.4/zookeeperOver.html#Reliability Patrick
