There are numerous improvements to MySQL replication durability that make it less likely to encounter problems when a slave crashes and comes back online. This

There are numerous improvements to MySQL replication durability that make it less likely to encounter problems when a slave crashes and comes back online. This is a big deal for folks with a lot of replication slaves. Currently slave crashes often result in inconsistencies due to the way that the relay-log.info and master.info files are flushed.