> To give an example, say I have n machines in datacenter A, and n*.99 in datacenter B. datacenter A gets destroyed, permanently. Does datacenter B now reject all (EDIT: where reject = not commit) requests until a human comes along to tell it that datacenter A isn't coming back?
Of CAP, you are now choosing CP with Raft. So yes, the system is unavailable until an external agent fixes it. In other words, the system needs to have a majority of nodes online to be "available".
Of CAP, you are now choosing CP with Raft. So yes, the system is unavailable until an external agent fixes it. In other words, the system needs to have a majority of nodes online to be "available".