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Raft distributed consensus algorithm implemented in Rust.
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What are vote leader and vote term? #534

Open fade2black opened 6 months ago

fade2black commented 6 months ago

I have come across

in this line.

While I understand the basic concepts leader, term and vote, commit index as they are defined in the original Raft paper or explained by the authors on the YouTUbe channels, I've never come across terms like vote leader or vote term.

Do they denote the same thing as simply leader and term or is it something that the implementers of the crate made up? If so, then some explanation should be added to the docs, otherwise It is confusing.

BusyJay commented 6 months ago

It actually means the candidate it votes for and its term.

fade2black commented 6 months ago

@BusyJay Oh, I see. Got you. Thanks a lot.