ZooKeeper not starting because acceptedEpoch is less than the currentEpoch

This issue occurred in one of our test environment where disk was being changed to read only very frequently.
The the scenario is as follows:

1. Configure three node ZooKeeper cluster, lets say nodes are A, B and C
2. Start A and B. Both A and B start successfully, quorum is running.
3. Start C, because of IO error C fails to update acceptedEpoch file. But C also starts successfully, joins the quorum as follower
4. Stop C
5. Start C, bellow exception with message "The accepted epoch, 0 is less than the current epoch, 1" is thrown

   2015-10-29 16:52:32,942 [myid:3] - ERROR [main:QuorumPeer@784] - Unable to load database on disk
   java.io.IOException: The accepted epoch, 0 is less than the current epoch, 1
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeer.loadDataBase(QuorumPeer.java:781)
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeer.start(QuorumPeer.java:720)
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain.runFromConfig(QuorumPeerMain.java:202)
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain.initializeAndRun(QuorumPeerMain.java:139)
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain.main(QuorumPeerMain.java:88)
   2015-10-29 16:52:32,946 [myid:3] - ERROR [main:QuorumPeerMain@111] - Unexpected exception, exiting abnormally
   java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to run quorum server 
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeer.loadDataBase(QuorumPeer.java:785)
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeer.start(QuorumPeer.java:720)
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain.runFromConfig(QuorumPeerMain.java:202)
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain.initializeAndRun(QuorumPeerMain.java:139)
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain.main(QuorumPeerMain.java:88)
   Caused by: java.io.IOException: The accepted epoch, 0 is less than the current epoch, 1
   	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeer.loadDataBase(QuorumPeer.java:781)