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		justinsb on May 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Raft Consensus Algorithm How do you propose to differentiate between the 'network is segmented' vs 'servers are simply down' cases?

joshuak on May 28, 2015 [–]

I meant to refer to the case in which there are potentially conflicting writes (segmented) vs no writes (offline).

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