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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HADOOP-6904:
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You should have waited while common changes are integrated by Hudson, them
commit hdfs and mr, as those are not compiling until them.
> A baby step towards inter-version RPC communications
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>
> Key: HADOOP-6904
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6904
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ipc
> Affects Versions: 0.22.0
> Reporter: Hairong Kuang
> Assignee: Hairong Kuang
> Fix For: 0.23.0
>
> Attachments: majorMinorVersion.patch, majorMinorVersion1.patch,
> rpcCompatible-trunk.patch, rpcCompatible-trunk1.patch,
> rpcCompatible-trunk10.patch, rpcCompatible-trunk11.patch,
> rpcCompatible-trunk2.patch, rpcCompatible-trunk4.patch,
> rpcCompatible-trunk5.patch, rpcCompatible-trunk6.patch,
> rpcCompatible-trunk7.patch, rpcCompatible-trunk8.patch,
> rpcCompatible-trunk9.patch, rpcVersion.patch, rpcVersion1.patch
>
>
> Currently RPC communications in Hadoop is very strict. If a client has a
> different version from that of the server, a VersionMismatched exception is
> thrown and the client can not connect to the server. This force us to update
> both client and server all at once if a RPC protocol is changed. But sometime
> different versions do not mean the client & server are not compatible. It
> would be nice if we could relax this restriction and allows us to support
> inter-version communications.
> My idea is that DfsClient catches VersionMismatched exception when it
> connects to NameNode. It then checks if the client & the server is
> compatible. If yes, it sets the NameNode version in the dfs client and allows
> the client to continue talking to NameNode. Otherwise, rethrow the
> VersionMismatch exception.
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