Hi Ted, I 100% agree with what you said. But my question is more about what if my zookeeper service cluster is partitioned from a majority of nodes in my USER CLUSTER. In this case, the majority nodes in one network partition can’t select a new leader because zookeeper is out of reach.
Another example will be that if there is an asymmetric network failure where a majority of nodes from the USER CLUSTER can’t reach the leader while the zookeeper still can. How does zookeeper handle such situation? Thanks, Lei On 4/30/10 12:24 PM, "Ted Dunning" <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: There are a variety of situations that can trigger a new leader election and a few that can cause the cluster to be unable to elect a new leader. Isolation of just the leader is one of the situations that will cause a new leader election. Isolation of nodes into groups smaller than the quorum will result in the cluster freezing. On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Lei Gao <l...@linkedin.com> wrote: Hi, I have a general question on how zookeeper can maintain its view of the user cluster (that zookeeper manages) that is consistent with the nodes in the user cluster. In other words, when zookeeper considers the current leader is unavailable, does it really guarantee that a majority of nodes in the user cluster can’t reach the current leader? The same question applies to the membership service as well. Because the zookeeper can be partitioned from a majority of the nodes in the user cluster. How does the zookeeper handle situations like this? Thanks, Lei
