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(+Doc) link split-brain wiki from quorom decision making (#108915)
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Mini change to link the [wiki page about "split-brain"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain_(computing)) as an industry-not-Elastic term under [Quorum-based decision making](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-discovery-quorums.html)
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stefnestor committed May 22, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ succeeded on receipt of responses from a _quorum_, which is a subset of the
master-eligible nodes in the cluster. The advantage of requiring only a subset
of the nodes to respond is that it means some of the nodes can fail without
preventing the cluster from making progress. The quorums are carefully chosen so
the cluster does not have a "split brain" scenario where it's partitioned into
the cluster does not have a "{wikipedia}/Split-brain_(computing)[split-brain]" scenario where it's partitioned into
two pieces such that each piece may make decisions that are inconsistent with
those of the other piece.

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