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This commit adds a simple description of the stale shard issue to the
Resiliency page.

Relates #14671

@jasontedor jasontedor added >docs General docs changes review labels Nov 11, 2015
This commit adds a simple description of the stale shard issue to the
Resiliency page.

Relates #14671
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dakrone commented Nov 11, 2015

LGTM

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=== Do not allow stale shards to automatically be promoted to primary (STATUS: ONGOING)

In some scenarios, a succession of multiple isolated nodes can cause a stale replica shard to be promoted to primary
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How about "In some scenarios, after loss of all valid copies, a stale replica shard can be assigned as a primary. This can lead to a loss of acknowledged writes, if the valid copies are not lost but are rather temporally isolated by a network partition"?

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