[DOCS-4555] Need to mention explicitly that a majority is needed to have a primary Created: 18/Dec/14  Updated: 16/Mar/15  Resolved: 14/Jan/15

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: v1.3.17

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Alexander Komyagin Assignee: Sam Kleinman (Inactive)
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
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http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/force-member-to-be-primary/


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 Description   

Perhaps we should be explicit about the fact that in order for the instructions to work, you still need a majority of voting nodes to be online. It might not be obvious for people not familiar with MongoDB election protocol.



 Comments   
Comment by Sam Kleinman (Inactive) [ 14/Jan/15 ]

I think my patch clarifies the potential confusion

Comment by Githook User [ 14/Jan/15 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'tychoish', u'name': u'Sam Kleinman', u'email': u'samk@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-4555: add consideration and cross reference to priority setting tutorial
Branch: v2.6
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/b0f1bf73a2c6358bf070bdee547d239b896332d0

Comment by Githook User [ 14/Jan/15 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'tychoish', u'name': u'Sam Kleinman', u'email': u'samk@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-4555: add consideration and cross reference to priority setting tutorial
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/0db8cec4fc74a130dc64f57819736f6395138464

Comment by Sam Kleinman (Inactive) [ 14/Jan/15 ]

The procedure won't work at all if a majority of the members are not available, because you can't reconfigure a minority of the set.

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