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@@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ cluster: transactions not yet replicated to the server will be lost, and
transactions not yet applied to the cluster may be committed. Afterward, any
servers in its former cluster will regard the server to have failed.
+Once a server leaves a cluster, it may never rejoin it. Instead, create a new
+server and join it to the cluster.
+
The servers in a cluster synchronize data over a cluster management protocol
that is specific to Open vSwitch; it is not the same as the OVSDB protocol
specified in RFC 7047. For this purpose, a server in a cluster is tied to a