If you have an efficient way to grab the disk state from an observer, this will, indeed, make starting a new observer less expensive to the cluster. In practice, this isn't a big deal since the ZK snapshot is bounded by memory size and transferring a few GB across the network isn't all that painful as a one-time cost.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Avinash Lakshman < avinash.laksh...@gmail.com> wrote: > (1) If I snapshot the data on other observer machines will I be able to > bootstrap new observers with it? Given that writes are like a one time > thing. >
