Github user phunt commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/487
Looks promising - doesn't seem very useful (and potentially dangerous)
without docs - perhaps add a troubleshooting or recovery section here?
http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.4.11/zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_dataFileManagement
The jira was original for 3.5+, I think this would be great to get into
3.4+.---
