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ASF GitHub Bot commented on ZOOKEEPER-2872:
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Github user enixon commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/333
We contemplated doing an fsync for every snapshot and decided against.
You're taking a guaranteed io spike each time. That's fine when you're just
syncing with the quorum but during normal operation, it seems best to keep
snapshot taking a lighter weight operation.
> Interrupted snapshot sync causes data loss
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> Key: ZOOKEEPER-2872
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2872
> Project: ZooKeeper
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: server
> Affects Versions: 3.4.10, 3.5.3, 3.6.0
> Reporter: Brian Nixon
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> There is a way for observers to permanently lose data from their local data
> tree while remaining members of good standing with the ensemble and
> continuing to serve client traffic when the following chain of events occurs.
> 1. The observer dies in epoch N from machine failure.
> 2. The observer comes back up in epoch N+1 and requests a snapshot sync to
> catch up.
> 3. The machine powers off before the snapshot is synced to disc and after
> some txn's have been logged (depending on the OS, this can happen!).
> 4. The observer comes back a second time and replays its most recent snapshot
> (epoch <= N) as well as the txn logs (epoch N+1).
> 5. A diff sync is requested from the leader and the observer broadcasts
> availability.
> In this scenario, any commits from epoch N that the observer did not receive
> before it died the first time will never be exposed to the observer and no
> part of the ensemble will complain.
> This situation is not unique to observers and can happen to any learner. As a
> simple fix, fsync-ing the snapshots received from the leader will avoid the
> case of missing snapshots causing data loss.
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