Sure, I understand that. There are also no guarantees if the leader node goes down and an action must be performed in between heartbeats The Zookeeper client wont yet be aware a node is down and the cluster's state will be inconsistent, right?
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Jordan Zimmerman < [email protected]> wrote: > No. If a non-leader dies there is not a new leader election. The current > leader stays leader. > > -JZ > > On January 27, 2015 at 12:50:43 PM, Ricardo Ferreira ( > [email protected]) wrote: > > And from what you described, it gets worse: If a non-leader dies, > leadership election will take place and a new leader might be elected, > right? > >
