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by jmix 4894 days ago
Imagine two nodes, both initiating updates to the same row. One has observed a number of node additions and deletions. The other has not. They will perform their updates on disjoint sets.

> There's not really any way that nodes can disagree on this.

Atomic, dynamic updates to a ring are a difficult thing to do. If I'm missing some additional mechanism that ensures agreement on ring membership, please explain.