Split-Brain (Computing) - Wikipedia - data corruption  ## Metadata - Author: **data corruption** - Full Title: Split-Brain (Computing) - Wikipedia - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain_(computing) ## Highlights - Split-brain is a computer term, based on an analogy with the medical Split-brain syndrome. It indicates data or availability inconsistencies originating from the maintenance of two separate data sets with overlap in scope, either because of servers in a network design, or a failure condition based on servers not communicating and synchronizing their data to each other. This last case is also commonly referred to as a network partition. - Tags: #computing