[DOCS-12972] Misleading statements on arbiters Created: 20/Aug/19  Updated: 30/Oct/23  Resolved: 08/Jan/20

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Server_Docs_20231030

Type: Task Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Andre Spiegel Assignee: Kay Kim (Inactive)
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: docs-onboarding-candidate
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related to DOCS-12858 Explain _why_ we recommend an odd num... Closed
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Days since reply: 4 years, 5 weeks ago
Epic Link: DOCSP-1769
Story Points: 0.5

 Description   

Description

The documentation of arbiters has this misleading sentence: "Arbiters participate in elections in order to break ties." https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/add-replica-set-arbiter/

This fuels a widespread misunderstanding that elections can only be decided if there's an odd number of participants, or that an arbiter is always necessary to decide any election, both of which is not the case. The sentence should read something like "Arbiters participate in elections just like full data-bearing nodes, so they can be used in situations where setting up a regular node is not feasible or desired."

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Comment by Githook User [ 08/Jan/20 ]

Author:

{'name': 'Kay Kim', 'email': 'kay.kim@10gen.com', 'username': 'kay-kim'}

Message: DOCS-12972: arbiter clarification – only if needed and if can't do a secondary
Branch: v3.4
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/6a445ca5f573d630acb5e1d7cbf2c2c6fb6b8726

Comment by Githook User [ 08/Jan/20 ]

Author:

{'name': 'Kay Kim', 'email': 'kay.kim@10gen.com', 'username': 'kay-kim'}

Message: DOCS-12972: arbiter clarification – only if needed and if can't do a secondary
Branch: v3.6
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/a0ec19f91fa8d2009b0ba3875ade81c514a68c11

Comment by Githook User [ 08/Jan/20 ]

Author:

{'name': 'Kay Kim', 'email': 'kay.kim@10gen.com', 'username': 'kay-kim'}

Message: DOCS-12972: arbiter clarification – only if needed and if can't do a secondary
Branch: v4.0
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/fb441a955b1a5b37f52baf3f21086cca71edad27

Comment by Githook User [ 08/Jan/20 ]

Author:

{'name': 'Kay Kim', 'email': 'kay.kim@10gen.com', 'username': 'kay-kim'}

Message: DOCS-12972: arbiter clarification – only if needed and if can't do a secondary
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/20862e817888c88aa2d089edfe610ecb3a30e77f

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