Github user hanm commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/120#discussion_r91208138 --- Diff: src/java/main/org/apache/zookeeper/server/persistence/FileTxnSnapLog.java --- @@ -165,8 +173,41 @@ public File getSnapDir() { */ public long restore(DataTree dt, Map<Long, Integer> sessions, PlayBackListener listener) throws IOException { - snapLog.deserialize(dt, sessions); + long deserializeResult = snapLog.deserialize(dt, sessions); FileTxnLog txnLog = new FileTxnLog(dataDir); + boolean suspectEmptyDB; + File initFile = new File(dataDir.getParent(), "initialize"); + if (initFile.exists()) { + if (!initFile.delete()) { + LOG.warn("Unable to delete initialization file " + initFile.toString()); --- End diff -- It sounds pretty serious issue if the initialize file can't be cleaned up upon startup of a new ensemble for whatever reasons as the presence of this file is the key promise made here - not able to clean it up will possibly lead to inconsistent quorum state again that this PR is trying to fix. So, maybe throw an IOException here to abort server start process and let admin intervene instead?
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