When testing the failure of 5 out of 20 nodes, all master nodes became unresponsive, looking at the logs prior to them becoming unresponsive they show many NodeNotConnectedException for nodes that were NOT shutdown. Why can't a cluster survive multiple node failures? Thanks

Master node hangs when multiple data nodes are shutdown at the same time

emptyemail (Emptyemail) May 19, 2015, 8:00am 2

The cluster came back to life in 20 minutes with no data loss. Is there anything that can be done during this down time to?

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