What you describe is not how quorums work in the Dynamo paper or for example in Riak (a Dynamo implementation). It does not require the DB to create replicas on the minority side of a partition. The Dynamo paper (and Riak implements this) includes Sloppy Quorums to increase availability.
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What you describe is not how quorums work in the Dynamo paper or for example in Riak (a Dynamo implementation). It does not require the DB to create replicas on the minority side of a partition. The Dynamo paper (and Riak implements this) includes Sloppy Quorums to increase availability.