# River in split brain situation?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/river-in-split-brain-situation/6788>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 23, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/river-in-split-brain-situation/6788 "2012-02-23T13:21:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/river-in-split-brain-situation/6788/1 "2012-02-23T13:21:43Z")

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Hello,

What happens with a River in split brain situations? Does each  
isolated cluster segment create its own instance of the River or... ?

## Thanks, Otis

Search Analytics - [http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)  
Scalable Performance Monitoring - [http://sematext.com/spm/index.html](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/river-in-split-brain-situation/6788/2 "2012-02-26T09:59:07Z")

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Yes, each formed cluster will have its own river.

On Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> What happens with a River in split brain situations? Does each  
> isolated cluster segment create its own instance of the River or... ?
> 
> ## Thanks, Otis
> 
> Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)  
> Scalable Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/river-in-split-brain-situation/6788/3 "2017-07-06T03:38:13Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:38am UTC