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diff --git a/docs/lifecycle.md b/docs/lifecycle.md index 900349d..3843646 100644 --- a/docs/lifecycle.md +++ b/docs/lifecycle.md @@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ document file holding a document is an error with no override. own writes. It is appended to every `--document-append` (default 5s) and rewritten after an epoch change, a restart, or when the appended part outgrew the full save (at most every `--document-rewrite`, default 1h); a record cut short - by a crash is dropped when reading. A node starting from it is ready at once; sync + by a crash is dropped when reading. A file is read only by a version that knows + every kind of record in it: one a later version wrote is unusable to an earlier one, + which doesn't start on it unless told to move it aside (`--force badDocumentFile`). A node starting from it is ready at once; sync merges what it missed, or it rejoins a newer epoch. A node writes as a fresh actor each start, unless `--keep-actor` and it stopped cleanly (the file marks a clean stop, and the mark is undone as the node starts on it, before it decides its actor): |