The current implementation of vard and shim tries to read state from snapshot (and command log) on startup, and if that fails, loads the initial state silently. A better behavior is to signal when the snapshot and/or command log files are present, but cannot be used to build the initial state.
The current implementation of
vardand shim tries to read state from snapshot (and command log) on startup, and if that fails, loads the initial state silently. A better behavior is to signal when the snapshot and/or command log files are present, but cannot be used to build the initial state.