Github user tdunning commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/354#issuecomment-74326698 This is a bit late, but a ZK capability that might help with fencing is the multi operation. What you can do is to a check on a leader election znode in the same multi that you are doing a state update. If the leader election znode does not have the expected value, the state update will not be done. You may also be able to use version numbers to achieve the desired fencing. You could do a read of the state, verify that the correct master is listed in the state and then do a modify that requires a known version. This will fail if somebody else has updated the state, but will succeed if the updating node is still the master. These sorts of guaranteed updates are more secure than most other forms of fencing because they are guaranteed against race conditions, partitions and time faults.
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