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Note behaviour of negative commit timeout in 6.x (#42834)
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Fixes #36632
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harshbajaj16 authored and DaveCTurner committed Jul 22, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -188,8 +188,9 @@ applies the required changes and publishes the updated cluster state to all the
other nodes in the cluster. Each node receives the publish message, acknowledges
it, but does *not* yet apply it. If the master does not receive acknowledgement
from at least `discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes` nodes within a certain time
(controlled by the `discovery.zen.commit_timeout` setting and defaults to 30
seconds) the cluster state change is rejected.
(controlled by the `discovery.zen.commit_timeout` setting which defaults to 30
seconds, with negative values treated as 0 seconds) the cluster state change is
rejected.

Once enough nodes have responded, the cluster state is committed and a message
will be sent to all the nodes. The nodes then proceed to apply the new cluster
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