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From:Silvano Mastice Date:October 23 2004 11:31am
Subject:Definition of arbitrator
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Hi,
I could not find in the documentation the definition of an "arbitrator", except that it
could be either an API or MGM 
node. So I know that I can define an arbitrator  with a rank. But what exactly is an
arbitrator?
Could you please provide a definition?

Furthermore, I understand that, when a node dies, the survivor one has to ask the
arbitrator to decide if it can restart 
or not.
http://lists.mysql.com/cluster/625

What I don't understand is the need of an arbitrator in such a case. If only oine node
survives, why it can't decide all 
alone to continue working?

Thanks for any help.

Silvano

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Definition of arbitratorSilvano Mastice23 Oct
  • Re: Definition of arbitratorpekka24 Oct