The first entry in the log is a dummy which is used for matchTerm
but may not have an actual payload. This change permits Storage
implementations to treat this term value specially instead of
storing it as a dummy Entry.
Storage.FirstIndex() no longer includes the term-only entry.
This reverses a recent decision to create entry zero as initially
unstable; Storage implementations are now required to make
Term(0) == 0 and the first unstable entry is now index 1.
stableTo(0) is no longer allowed.
This entry is now persisted through the normal flow instead of appearing
in the stored log at creation time. This is how things worked before
the Storage interface was introduced. (see coreos/etcd#1689)
Callers must in general have a reference to their Storage objects to
transfer entries from Ready to Storage, so it doesn't make sense to
create a hidden Storage for them.
By explicitly creating Storage objects in tests we can remove a
few casts of raftLog's storage field.
This change splits the raftLog.entries array into an in-memory
"unstable" list and a pluggable interface for retrieving entries that
have been persisted to disk. An in-memory implementation of this
interface is provided which behaves the same as the old version;
in a future commit etcdserver could replace the MemoryStorage with
one backed by the WAL.
Ben Darnell