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For a cluster with only one member, the raft always send identical unstable entries and committed entries to etcdserver, and etcd responds to the client once it finishes (actually partially) the applying workflow. When the client receives the response, it doesn't mean etcd has already successfully saved the data, including BoltDB and WAL, because: 1. etcd commits the boltDB transaction periodically instead of on each request; 2. etcd saves WAL entries in parallel with applying the committed entries. Accordingly, it may run into a situation of data loss when the etcd crashes immediately after responding to the client and before the boltDB and WAL successfully save the data to disk. Note that this issue can only happen for clusters with only one member. For clusters with multiple members, it isn't an issue, because etcd will not commit & apply the data before it being replicated to majority members. When the client receives the response, it means the data must have been applied. It further means the data must have been committed. Note: for clusters with multiple members, the raft will never send identical unstable entries and committed entries to etcdserver. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Wang <wachao@vmware.com>