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Flavio Junqueira commented on KAFKA-1211:
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[~junrao] let me ask a few clarification questions.
# Is it right that the scenarios described here do not affect the cases in
which min isr > 1 and unclean leader election is disabled? If min isr is
greater than 1 and the leader is always coming from the latest isr, then the
leader can either truncate the followers or have them fetch the missing log
suffix.
# The main goal of the proposal is to have replicas in a lossy configuration
(e.g. min isr = 1, unclean leader election enabled) a leader and a follower
converging to a common prefix by choosing an offset based on a common
generation. The chosen generation is the largest generation in common between
the two replicas. Is it right?
# How do we guarantee that the generation id is unique, by using zookeeper
versions?
# I think there is a potential race between updating the
leader-generation-checkpoint file and appending the first message of the
generation. We might be better off rolling the log segment file and having the
generation being part of the log segment file name. This way when we start a
new generation, we also start a new file and we know precisely when a message
from that generation has been appended.
# Let's consider a scenario with 3 servers A B C. I'm again assuming that it is
ok to have a single server up to ack requests. Say we have the following
execution:
{noformat}
Generation A B C
1 m1
m1
m2
m2
2 m3
m4
{noformat}
Say that now A and B start generation 3. They have no generation in common, so
the start from zero, dropping m1 and m2. Is that right? If later on C joins A
and B, then it will also drop m1 and m2, right? Given that the configuration is
lossy, it doesn't wrong to do it as all we are trying to do is to converge to a
consistent state.
> Hold the produce request with ack > 1 in purgatory until replicas' HW has
> larger than the produce offset
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>
> Key: KAFKA-1211
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1211
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Guozhang Wang
> Assignee: Guozhang Wang
> Fix For: 0.11.0.0
>
>
> Today during leader failover we will have a weakness period when the
> followers truncate their data before fetching from the new leader, i.e.,
> number of in-sync replicas is just 1. If during this time the leader has also
> failed then produce requests with ack >1 that have get responded will still
> be lost. To avoid this scenario we would prefer to hold the produce request
> in purgatory until replica's HW has larger than the offset instead of just
> their end-of-log offsets.
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