Reason to store CI and term in backend was to make db fully independent
snapshot, it was never meant to interfere with apply logic. Skip of CI
was introduced for v2->v3 migration where we wanted to prevent it from
decreasing when replaying wal in
https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/5391. By mistake it was added to
apply flow during refactor in
https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/12855#commitcomment-70713670.
Consistency index and term should only be negotiated and used by raft to make
decisions. Their values should only driven by raft state machine and
backend should only be responsible for storing them.
Motivation is as follows:
- etcdctl we only depend on clientv3 APIs, no dependencies of bolt, backend, mvcc, file-layout
- etcdctl can be officially supported across wide range of versions, while etcdutl is pretty specific to file format at particular version.
it's step towards desired modules layout, documented in: https://etcd.io/docs/next/dev-internal/modules/
