MAPREDUCE-5821. Avoid unintentional reallocation of byte arrays in segments
during merge. Contributed by Todd Lipcon


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svn merge -c 1594709 merging from trunk to branch-2 to fix:HDFS-2949. Add check to active state transition to prevent operator-induced split brain. Contributed by Rushabh S Shah.

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