There's nothing to prevent this as it stands, no, except user action. A lock file might not be a bad idea.
C On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Will Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > We recently ran into an issue where two zookeepers servers which were a > part of two separate quorums were configured to use the same data > directory. Interestingly, the zookeeper servers did not seem to complain > and both seemed to work fine until one of them was restarted. Once that > happened all sort of chaos ensued. I understand that this is a > misconfiguration should zookeeper complain about this or do users need to > protect themselves in some external fashion? Is a simple file lock enough > or are there other things I should take into consideration if it's up to me > to handle? > > I'm happy to file a jira for this as I didn't see any doc related to it > but I wanted to see if I missed something first. > > > - will >
