To add a new node to the network, it * needs to have the same data as the other nodes * needs a round of Raft to notify its presence to other nodes So you ca

To add a new node to the network, it * needs to have the same data as the other nodes * needs a round of Raft to notify its presence to other nodes So you can only add new nodes (automatically) when you have a 'live' system. majority = ceil((2n + 1)/2) : so by getting the number of available nodes in the partition, nodes can figure out if they are in the majority or minority cluster. See section 6 in the paper for details of its implementation.