The app slaves will monitor the health of the app master and if the master fails, the slaves will use a quorum vote in order for one of them to get a lock.

从应用会监控主应用的健康情况，一旦主应用挂掉，从应用会通过法定人数投票来选出其中一个来，去获取一个锁。

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Ezra Klein has a good explanation of how the Republicans managed to get the vote through without a quorum that the AWOL senate Democrats had been preventing with their absence.

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