private boolean metaInformationSimilarTo(final ClusterState other) {
        return version == other.version
                && state.equals(other.state)
                && distributionBits == other.distributionBits;
    }
Parse a given cluster state string into a returned ClusterState instance, wrapping any
parse exceptions in a RuntimeException.
vdslib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vdslib/state/ClusterState.java