[KUDU-871] Allow tombstoned tablets to vote

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Public beta
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: consensus
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Code Review: https://gerrit.cloudera.org/c/6960/
• Assignee: Mike Percy
• Reporter: Mike Percy
• Created: 24/Jul/15 05:13
• Updated: 05/Oct/17 20:23
• Resolved: 05/Oct/17 20:23

Description

We may need to support voting for tombstoned tablets to avoid availability issues in certain scenarios. For more discussion, see: https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/master/docs/design-docs/raft-tablet-copy.md#should-a-server-be-allowed-to-vote-if-it-does_not_exist-or-is-deleted

Issue Links

• relates to: KUDU-2169 Allow replicas that do not exist to vote