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Konstantin Boudnik commented on HADOOP-7001:
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Also, this Herriot system testing framework will be highly benefited from such
a change. +1 on the idea.
> Allow configuration changes without restarting configured nodes
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>
> Key: HADOOP-7001
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7001
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Patrick Kling
>
> Currently, changing the configuration on a node (e.g., the name node)
> requires that we restart the node. We propose a change that would allow us to
> make configuration changes without restarting. Nodes that support
> configuration changes at run time should implement the following interface:
> interface ChangeableConfigured extends Configured {
> void changeConfiguration(Configuration newConf) throws
> ConfigurationChangeException;
> }
> The contract of changeConfiguration is as follows:
> The node will compare newConf to the existing configuration. For each
> configuration property that is set to a different value than in the current
> configuration, the node will either adjust its behaviour to conform to the
> new configuration or throw a ConfigurationChangeException if this change is
> not possible at run time. If a configuration property is set in the current
> configuration but is unset in newConf, the node should use its default value
> for this property. After a successful invocation of changeConfiguration, the
> behaviour of the configured node should be indistinguishable from the
> behaviour of a node that was configured with newConf at creation.
> It should be easy to change existing nodes to implement this interface. We
> can start by throwing the exception for all changes and then gradually start
> supporting more and more changes at run time. (We might even consider
> replacing Configured with ChangeableConfigured entirely, but I think the
> proposal above afford greater flexibility).
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