Hi Muhammad Gelbana,

Yes. This was extracted a reply received to a query in Zookeeper user mailing list. Please see the reply to my query for more details in that mailing list.

So the idea here is, minority partition will go to a leader election when the network is partitioned. But the servers in the minority partition won’t be able to gather a majority of votes. Say we had 5 nodes in original cluster and minority partition has 2 when partitioned, a server in minority partition will never succeed in gathering 3 or more votes to become the leader.

Furthermore, minority won’t be accepting writes since it doesn't have a leader. Not because it is just the minority partition (also a server don not have a method to determine whether it is in the minority partition or not unless a leader election is called)

That is what I have meant in those paragraphs. Hope you got the idea.