I don't believe it's a matter of disabling the feature, it never existed. IIRC, synchronizing followers may include sending them the snapshot, which is streamed from the disk in the "on disk" form.
Patrick On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Rakesh Radhakrishnan <rake...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Aishwarya, > > >>>>>Is there a way to disable snapshots > Its interesting, just curious to know the thought process behind disabling > snapshot feature. Thanks! > > > Rakesh > > > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Michael Han <h...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > >> Is there a way to disable snapshots when the Zookeeper process > restarts? > > Snapshot is a mandatory feature so there is no configuration option to > > disable it afaik. > > > > >> is it safe to just comment zk.takeSnapshot() > > This should work in theory, if there is no snapshot ZK will rely on > > transaction log file for recovery. But I never tried it though. > > > > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Aishwarya Ganesan <ash8as...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Is there a way to disable snapshots when the Zookeeper process > restarts? > > > Setting snapCount to a large value doesn't help as Zookeeper takes > > > a snapshot on startup. > > > > > > In order to achieve this, is it safe to just comment zk.takeSnapshot() > in > > > the code? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Aishwarya > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers > > Michael. > > >
