title: Distributed MinIO failure scenario's
body: <p>We want to run MinIO in a distributed / high-availability setup, but would like to know a bit more about the behavior of MinIO under different failure scenario's. Especially given the read-after-write consistency, I'm assuming that nodes need to communicate.</p>
  <p>So what happens if a node drops out? Will there be a timeout from other nodes, during which writes won't be acknowledged? What happens during network partitions (I'm guessing the partition that has quorum will keep functioning), or flapping or congested network connections? What if a disk on one of the nodes starts going wonky, and will hang for 10s of seconds at a time? Will the network pause and wait for that?</p>
  <p>Is there any documentation on how MinIO handles failures?</p>