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diff --git a/docs/lifecycle.md b/docs/lifecycle.md index e09ef01..d703fe3 100644 --- a/docs/lifecycle.md +++ b/docs/lifecycle.md @@ -93,8 +93,9 @@ document file holding a document is an error with no override. 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. 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 + stop, and the mark is undone as the node starts on it, before it decides its actor): + then it writes on as the actor of before, as nothing it wrote is missing. Where the + mark can't be undone (the disk full, say), it writes as a fresh one. 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 |