Yes split brains are bad and we can avoid it by setting discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes to (n/2+1) quorums. This question is to understand why Elasticsearch cannot attempt to reconcile/replay the diverged data when a cluster recovers back from split brain. Yes, in case some documents have confl…

Why not reconcile shards/docs after split brain recovery?

warkolm (Mark Walkom) March 21, 2017, 8:26am 2

How do you determine which documents take precedence?
How do you inform the user that they system is discarding data in favour of another?

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Why not reconcile shards/docs after split brain recovery?

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