What is the expected behavior if a server in a ZooKeeper service
restarts with all its prior state lost? Empirically, everything seems to
work*. Is this something that one can count on, as part of ZooKeeper
design, or are there known conditions under which this could cause
problems, either liveness or violation of ZooKeeper guarantees?
I'm really most interested in a situation where a single server loses
state, but insights into issues when more than one server loses state
and other interesting failure scenarios are appreciated.
Thanks.
* The restarted server appears to catch up to the latest snapshot (from
the current leader?).
- What happens when a server loses all its state? Thomas Vinod Johnson
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