No. It catches up first. Then it joins in normal operations. On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Avinash Lakshman < avinash.laksh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All > > Let's say I have a Zookeeper cluster with nodes A, B, C, D and E. Let's > assume A is the leader. Now let us assume after a few writes have taken > place the node B crashes. When it comes back up what is the recovery > protocol? Does it join the cluster immediately and start taking writes and > reads while it is catching up on writes that it lost when it was down? > > Cheers > Avinash >