RE: What happens when a server loses all its state?

2008-12-17 Thread Benjamin Reed
From: thomas.john...@sun.com [thomas.john...@sun.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:02 PM To: zookeeper-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: What happens when a server loses all its state? Mahadev Konar wrote: Hi Thomas, More generally, is it a safe assumption

RE: What happens when a server loses all its state?

2008-12-17 Thread Krishna Sankar (ksankar)
recovery state. Cheers k/ |-Original Message- |From: Benjamin Reed [mailto:br...@yahoo-inc.com] |Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:48 AM |To: zookeeper-user@hadoop.apache.org |Subject: RE: What happens when a server loses all its state? | |Thomas, | |in the scenario you give you have

Re: What happens when a server loses all its state?

2008-12-16 Thread Thomas Vinod Johnson
Sorry, I should have been a little more explicit. At this point, the situation I'm considering is this; out of 3 servers, 1 server 'A' forgets its persistent state (due to a bad disk, say) and it restarts. My guess from what I could understand/reason about the internals was that the server 'A'