yes, and more than that - its theoretically impossible to tolerate half or more failures in a completely asynchronous environment if you want to provide strongly consistent replicated storage. Similar to the CAP theorem - in ZK when there is a partition we choose C over A.
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Cameron McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I guess in this situation there's no guarantee that A has the latest > data. I think that this is just an inherent limitation of the quorum based > writes though. Unless you have three separate machines at geographically > redundant sites, I don't think that you have true redundancy. > cheers > Cam
