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Benjamin Reed commented on ZOOKEEPER-261:
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i think it is problematic/impossible to detect partial loss of data. that falls
under the byzantine header. i think the issue of reinitializing a servers data
and reintegrating into a zookeeper ensemble is very reasonable. so the task is
really just determining that the server has been reinitialized. if we look at
the log and see that there aren't any proposals, we can know that the server
has been reinitialized. if a reinitialized server then sends a zxid of -1 for
the leader election vote, the other servers will know to ignore the vote and
the problem will go away. does that sound reasonable?
> Reinitialized servers should not participate in leader election
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>
> Key: ZOOKEEPER-261
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-261
> Project: Zookeeper
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: leaderElection, quorum
> Reporter: Benjamin Reed
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> A server that has lost its data should not participate in leader election
> until it has resynced with a leader. Our leader election algorithm and
> NEW_LEADER commit assumes that the followers voting on a leader have not lost
> any of their data. We should have a flag in the data directory saying whether
> or not the data is preserved so that the the flag will be cleared if the data
> is ever cleared.
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