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Flavio Paiva Junqueira updated ZOOKEEPER-157: --------------------------------------------- Status: Patch Available (was: Open) > Peer can't find existing leader > ------------------------------- > > Key: ZOOKEEPER-157 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-157 > Project: Zookeeper > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 3.0.0 > Reporter: Flavio Paiva Junqueira > Assignee: Flavio Paiva Junqueira > Priority: Critical > Attachments: ZOOKEEPER-157.patch > > > In the patch of JIRA 127, I forgot to set the state of a peer when this peer > is looking for a leader and it receives a message from the current leader. In > this patch, I have fixed this problem, and also returned to what we had > previously. With this current patch, when a peer joins and there is already a > leader elected, the joining peer will only recognize the new leader as the > leader once it receives a confirmation from a majority. The alternative is to > set the leader once we receive a message from a peer claiming to be the > leader (what we have on trunk now, although broken because we don't set the > state of the peer), but there could be cases in which a peer believes to be > leader, although it is not the leader any longer, and the joining peer would > select this false leader to be its leader. Eventually, the false leader would > timeout, and both processes would select the correct leader. This small fix > gets rid of such problems, though. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.