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diff --git a/docs/lifecycle.md b/docs/lifecycle.md index 829e425..e09ef01 100644 --- a/docs/lifecycle.md +++ b/docs/lifecycle.md @@ -91,7 +91,12 @@ document file holding a document is an error with no override. 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 - merges what it missed, or it rejoins a newer epoch. + 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): then it writes on as the actor + of before, as nothing it wrote is missing. Fewer actors mean fewer signatures in every + transfer of the epoch's history (a writer each); a crash, a drop, or a switch or a + rejoin still starts a fresh one. * **A backup** (`GET /admin/document`) is the whole document with its history, naming its swarm and epoch. `--recover-from` starts a node on it; `--genesis --remake import:FILE` starts a *new* swarm with its content; an `import` remake brings its |