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Hudson commented on HADOOP-6904: -------------------------------- Integrated in Hadoop-Mapreduce-trunk #643 (See [https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-Mapreduce-trunk/643/]) > A baby step towards inter-version RPC communications > ---------------------------------------------------- > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira