Actually I had the same thought and didn't consider having to do this until I talked about my project at a Zookeeper User Group a month or so ago and I was given this advice.
I know that I do see leadership being lost/transferred when one of the ZK servers is restarted (not the whole ensemble). And it seems like I've seen it happen even when the ensemble stays totally stable (though I am not 100% sure as it's been a while since I have worked on this particular application). -- Eric On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Jordan Zimmerman < [email protected]> wrote: > Why would it lose leadership? The only reason I can think of is if the ZK > cluster goes down. In normal use, the ZK cluster won't go down (I assume > you're running 3 or 5 instances). > > -JZ > > On Dec 8, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Eric Pederson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > During the time the task is running a cluster member could lose its > > leadership. > >
