jsancio commented on a change in pull request #10705:
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/10705#discussion_r633935466
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File path: raft/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/raft/RaftClient.java
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@@ -56,24 +57,17 @@
void handleSnapshot(SnapshotReader<T> reader);
/**
Review comment:
> Or you could choose to burn an epoch like this...
This is not how leader election works in Raft. When a leader fails or steps
down an epoch starts without a leader, only candidate(s). If leader election
succeeds for a given epoch only one leader is guaranteed to elect for that
epoch and will remain leader for the duration of that epoch.
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