Github user breed commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/624#discussion_r217873955
--- Diff: zookeeper-docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/zookeeperAdmin.xml
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@@ -265,18 +266,25 @@ server.3=zoo3:2888:3888</programlisting>
role="bold">server.id=host:port:port</emphasis>. The parameters
<emphasis
role="bold">host</emphasis> and <emphasis
role="bold">port</emphasis> are straightforward. You attribute
the
- server id to each machine by creating a file named
+ server id to each machine by setting <emphasis
role="bold">server.id</emphasis>
+ to a unique integer for each zookeeper server.To keep backwards
compatibility,
+ you can still creat a file named
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we should also talk about the importance of not changing the id since it
becomes much easier with the configuration file option. we should have
documented that anyway, but it becomes much more important with this change
since the id is decoupled from the data.
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