Jason Gustafson created KAFKA-7164:
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Summary: Follower should truncate after every leader epoch change
Key: KAFKA-7164
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7164
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Jason Gustafson
Assignee: Jason Gustafson
Currently we skip log truncation for followers if a LeaderAndIsr request is
received, but the leader does not change. This can lead to log divergence if
the follower missed a leader change before the current known leader was
reelected. Basically the problem is that the leader may truncate its own log
prior to becoming leader again, so the follower would need to reconcile its log
again.
For example, suppose that we have three replicas: r1, r2, and r3. Initially, r1
is the leader in epoch 0 and writes one record at offset 0. r3 replicates this
successfully.
r1:
status: leader
epoch: 0
log: [{id: 0, offset: 0, epoch:0}]
r2:
status: follower
epoch: 0
log: []
r3:
status: follower
epoch: 0
log: [{id: 0, offset: 0, epoch:0}]
Suppose then that r2 becomes leader in epoch 1. r1 notices the leader change
and truncates, but r3 for whatever reason, does not.
r1:
status: follower
epoch: 1
log: []
r2:
status: leader
epoch: 1
log: []
r3:
status: follower
epoch: 0
log: [{offset: 0, epoch:0}]
Now suppose that r2 fails and r1 becomes the leader in epoch 2. Immediately it
writes a new record:
r1:
status: leader
epoch: 2
log: [{id: 1, offset: 0, epoch:2}]
r2:
status: follower
epoch: 2
log: []
r3:
status: follower
epoch: 0
log: [{id: 0, offset: 0, epoch:0}]
If the replica continues fetching with the old epoch, we can have log
divergence as noted in KAFKA-6880. However, if r3 successfully receives the new
LeaderAndIsr request which updates the epoch to 2, but skips the truncation,
then the logs will stay inconsistent.
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