-It's possible to point `--throttle-control-replicas` at hosts that gh-ost can successfully connect to and poll for lag, even if those hosts have no replication relationship to the table actually being migrated. In that scenario, gh-ost will report healthy, low lag numbers throughout the migration — but this gives a false sense of safety, because the replica that actually matters (e.g., one serving downstream read traffic or analytics for the table being changed) is never being monitored at all, and could be silently falling behind without triggering any throttling.
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