If the WAL is stored in a separate directory then the backup command
would need a --wal-dir option to pick the path to the WAL directory.
The user might also want to store the backup of data and wal separately
for which --backup-wal-dir option is provided.
Backup process should be able to read all WALs until io.EOF to
generate a point-in-time backup.
Our WAL file is append-only. And the backup process will lock all
files before start reading, which can prevent the gc routine from
removing any files in the middle.
Compaction is now treated as an implementation detail of Storage
implementations; Node.Compact() and related functionality have been
removed. Ready.Snapshot is now used only for incoming snapshots.
A return value has been added to ApplyConfChange to allow applications
to track the node information that must be stored in the snapshot.
raftpb.Snapshot has been split into Snapshot and SnapshotMetadata, to
allow the full snapshot data to be read from disk only when needed.
raft.Storage has new methods Snapshot, ApplySnapshot, HardState, and
SetHardState. The Snapshot and HardState parameters have been removed
from RestartNode() and will now be loaded from Storage instead.
The only remaining difference between StartNode and RestartNode is that
the former bootstraps an initial list of Peers.
