A method is provided for continuing node operations in quorum-based protocols.
This is particularly valuable in the situation in which a group of nodes includes
only two nodes and in which communications to a node is lost. Provision is made
for adding additional status indications to each node indicating whether or not
it is enabled for single-node quorum operation. Provision is also made for identifying
one node as a primary node and another node as a secondary node for time-out response purposes.
