From 566f6558b4060c85fc5525ae28a46126c2f37ec3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip O'Toole <philip@influxdb.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 11:06:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Persist term to disk when it changes

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 1 +
 raft/log.go  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f178cf32a51..d6240bf1120 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 - [#2200](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/2200): Re-enable Continuous Queries.
 - [#2203](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/2203): Fix race condition on continuous queries.
 - [#2217](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/2217): Only revert to follower if new term is greater.
+- [#2219](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/2219): Persist term change to disk when candidate. Thanks @cannium
 
 ## v0.9.0-rc20 [2015-04-04]
 
diff --git a/raft/log.go b/raft/log.go
index 4c22d4eaaa7..3591ffd52a1 100644
--- a/raft/log.go
+++ b/raft/log.go
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ func (l *Log) candidateLoop(closing <-chan struct{}) State {
 
 	// Increment term and request votes.
 	l.mu.Lock()
-	l.term++
+	l.mustSetTerm(l.term + 1)
 	l.votedFor = l.id
 	term := l.term
 	l.mu.Unlock()