ctubbsii commented on PR #3187:
URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/3187#issuecomment-1420032733

   > In the client code, the first time the client performs a scan on a server, 
the client waits for all writes to complete before the scan can begin. It can 
be argued, that for user tables, the application may not be concerned with 
waiting for the writes to complete given that the waits are there for a 
specific use case.
   
   My understanding is that the specific use case is consistency from the same 
client, to ensure that a previous write is visible on subsequent scans. The 
comment says this is especially important for metadata, but I think it's just 
as important for consistency in general. While this may not be strictly 
required in all use cases, I don't know of a compelling reason to relax the 
behavior. I don't think effort should be put into making client views of the 
data less consistent... not without a substantially compelling reason, and I 
haven't seen any reason even proposed.
   
   In any case, I definitely don't think we should do anything in 1.10 at all 
for this.


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