@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ Socket Exceptions when Rebooting More than One Secondary
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191191When you reboot members of a replica set, ensure that the set is able
192192to elect a primary during the maintenance. This means ensuring that a majority of
193- the set's ' :data:`~replSetGetConfig.members[n].votes` are
193+ the set's :data:`~replSetGetConfig.members[n].votes` are
194194available.
195195
196196When a set's active members can no longer form a majority, the set's
@@ -200,11 +200,12 @@ attempting to write to the former primary receive socket exceptions
200200and *Connection reset* errors until the set can elect a primary.
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202202.. example:: Given a three-member replica set where every member has
203- one vote, the set can elect a primary only as long as two members
204- can connect to each other. If two you reboot the two secondaries
205- once, the primary steps down and becomes a secondary. Until the at
206- least one secondary becomes available, the set has no primary and
207- cannot elect a new primary.
203+ one vote, the set can elect a primary if at least two members
204+ can connect to each other. If you reboot the two secondaries at
205+ once, the primary steps down and becomes a secondary. Until at least
206+ another secondary becomes available, i.e. at least one of the rebooted
207+ secondaries also becomes available, the set has no primary and cannot
208+ elect a new primary.
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209210For more information on votes, see :doc:`/core/replica-set-elections`. For
210211related information on connection errors, see :ref:`faq-keepalive`.
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