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Tim Gross dc58f247ed docs: clarify reschedule, migrate, and replacement terminology (#24929)
Our vocabulary around scheduler behaviors outside of the `reschedule` and
`migrate` blocks leaves room for confusion around whether the reschedule tracker
should be propagated between allocations. There are effectively five different
behaviors we need to cover:

* restart: when the tasks of an allocation fail and we try to restart the tasks
  in place.

* reschedule: when the `restart` block runs out of attempts (or the allocation
  fails before tasks even start), and we need to move
  the allocation to another node to try again.

* migrate: when the user has asked to drain a node and we need to move the
  allocations. These are not failures, so we don't want to propagate the
  reschedule tracker.

* replacement: when a node is lost, we don't count that against the `reschedule`
  tracker for the allocations on the node (it's not the allocation's "fault",
  after all). We don't want to run the `migrate` machinery here here either, as we
  can't contact the down node. To the scheduler, this is effectively the same as
  if we bumped the `group.count`

* replacement for `disconnect.replace = true`: this is a replacement, but the
  replacement is intended to be temporary, so we propagate the reschedule tracker.

Add a section to the `reschedule`, `migrate`, and `disconnect` blocks explaining
when each item applies. Update the use of the word "reschedule" in several
places where "replacement" is correct, and vice-versa.

Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24918
Co-authored-by: Aimee Ukasick <aimee.ukasick@hashicorp.com>
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