I too have encountered this, when I was running two standalone servers. On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Will Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1502 > > thanks > > - will > > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Hunt [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 1:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: multiple zookeepers - same data directory > > Yes, please file a jira for this. > > Patrick > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Camille Fournier <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > >> >
