Is it possible to avoid a multi leader context

[Adrien Zinger]

Hi all,

There is some situations with raft where two nodes can lead at the same time (for at least a small instant). I would like to use raft in a project, but I cannot permits that kind of ambiguous situation. Actually, the idea is to avoid all situations where two or more leaders exist and produce logs simultaneously. Intuitively, I don't think that is possible to do that efficiently.

Is there someone here who already got that usecase? Or any idea about an hypothetical trick to achieve that?

Thanks!

Best regards,

Adrien

[Archie Cobbs]

You said two different things: (a) avoiding where "two nodes can lead at the same time" and (b) "avoid all situations where two or more leaders exist and produce logs simultaneously".

The verb "lead" there is a little ambiguous, but I think I know what you mean.

In any case, Raft prevents (b) but not (a)...

In other words, it's OK if two nodes *think* that they are leaders at the same time - as long as they can't both actually commit conflicting log entries; this is what the Raft protocol guarantees.

-Archie

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