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Anu Engineer commented on HADOOP-13738:
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[~arpitagarwal] Thank you for these improvements. I am sure that these are
going to make detecting errors on datanode much easier.
Had some minor comments / questions.
# Not sure what diskchecker.random buys us versus diskchecker.1, diskchecker.2
or diskchecker.3. These files are always deleted after use and in a failure
case seeing the sequence number of diskchecker files might be helpful. so I am
not sure why we need random at all here.
# As [~kihwal] said, just wanted to think though the failure. I can think of 3
distinct failure cases.
## Not able to create a file at all -- You can try 3 times and come out, may be
as [~kihwal] said it will take us 6 mins to get out.
## Creation works, but I/O and delete fails -- In this case disk I/O failure is
propagated but the junk files remain. Since disk checker will flag the disk is
having an issue this case is not problematic.
## File creation and I/O works, but delete fails. We seem to be using
{{FileUtils.deleteQuietly}}, shouldn't diskchecker be able to understand the
delete operation failed ? Also in this scenario, if we have both random files
and delete failures, we might create way too many junk files. If you use dc.1,
dc.2, dc.3 -- we might be able to restrict junk files to 3
> DiskChecker should perform some disk IO
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>
> Key: HADOOP-13738
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13738
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Arpit Agarwal
> Assignee: Arpit Agarwal
> Attachments: HADOOP-13738.01.patch, HADOOP-13738.02.patch,
> HADOOP-13738.03.patch
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> DiskChecker can fail to detect total disk/controller failures indefinitely.
> We have seen this in real clusters. DiskChecker performs simple
> permissions-based checks on directories which do not guarantee that any disk
> IO will be attempted.
> A simple improvement is to write some data and flush it to the disk.
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