# Question regarding dedicated master nodes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-regarding-dedicated-master-nodes/241267
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-regarding-dedicated-master-nodes/241267 "2020-07-15T10:36:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Zerobot](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zerobot)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-regarding-dedicated-master-nodes/241267/1 "2020-07-15T10:36:32Z")
Hello!
What will happen to elasticsearch cluster if 2 out of 3 dedicated master nodes will go down?
Let's say we have replication factor 2 and basically 2/3 of our cluster went down - we still have the data because it was replicated but only one master would remain -\> Will it still work?
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-regarding-dedicated-master-nodes/241267/2 "2020-07-15T10:41:53Z")
No. If you lose a majority of the master-eligible nodes then you will no longer have a good copy of the cluster metadata which is only stored on a majority of the master-eligible nodes. Without this metadata the data on your data nodes is essentially meaningless.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-regarding-dedicated-master-nodes/241267/3 "2020-08-12T10:42:19Z")
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