Before this PR, the log is
```
2015/09/1 13:18:31 etcdmain: client: etcd cluster is unavailable or
misconfigured
```
It is quite hard for people to understand what happens.
Now we print out the exact reason for the failure, and explains the way
to handle it.
Current membership changing functionality of etcd seems to have a
problem which can cause deadlock.
How to produce:
1. construct N node cluster
2. add N new nodes with etcdctl member add, without starting the new members
What happens:
After finishing add N nodes, a total number of the cluster becomes 2 *
N and a quorum number of the cluster becomes N + 1. It means
membership change requires at least N + 1 nodes because Raft treats
membership information in its log like other ordinal log append
requests.
Assume the peer URLs of the added nodes are wrong because of miss
operation or bugs in wrapping program which launch etcd. In such a
case, both of adding and removing members are impossible because the
quorum isn't preserved. Of course ordinal requests cannot be
served. The cluster would seem to be deadlock.
Of course, the best practice of adding new nodes is adding one node
and let the node start one by one. However, the effect of this problem
is so serious. I think preventing the problem forcibly would be
valuable.
Solution:
This patch lets etcd forbid adding a new node if the operation changes
quorum and the number of changed quorum is larger than a number of
running nodes. If etcd is launched with a newly added option
-strict-reconfig-check, the checking logic is activated. If the option
isn't passed, default behavior of reconfig is kept.
Fixes https://github.com/coreos/etcd/issues/3477
It specifies request timeout error possibly caused by connection lost,
and print out better log for user to understand.
It handles two cases:
1. the leader cannot connect to majority of cluster.
2. the connection between follower and leader is down for a while,
and it losts proposals.
log format:
```
20:04:19 etcd3 | 2015-08-25 20:04:19.368126 E | etcdhttp: etcdserver:
request timed out, possibly due to connection lost
20:04:19 etcd3 | 2015-08-25 20:04:19.368227 E | etcdhttp: etcdserver:
request timed out, possibly due to connection lost
```
Before this PR, the timeout caused by leader election returns:
```
14:45:37 etcd2 | 2015-08-12 14:45:37.786349 E | etcdhttp: got unexpected
response error (etcdserver: request timed out)
```
After this PR:
```
15:52:54 etcd1 | 2015-08-12 15:52:54.389523 E | etcdhttp: etcdserver:
request timed out, possibly due to leader down
```
Yicheng Qin