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Aaron Fabbri commented on HADOOP-15999:
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Was going to link HADOOP-15780 here, but [~gabor.bota] beat me to it.

Currently getFileStatus is always short-circuit as you mentioned. We might just 
want to make that configurable (separate config knob probably). If we are in 
"check both MS and S3" mode, we probably want a configurable or pluggable 
conflict policy. The default would probably be to go into a retry loop waiting 
for both systems (MetadataStore and S3) to agree. After retry policy is 
exhausted, throw error or continue depending on the conflict policy.

Feel feel to ping me for reviews etc.

> [s3a] Better support for out-of-band operations
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-15999
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-15999
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: fs/s3
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.0
>            Reporter: Sean Mackrory
>            Assignee: Gabor Bota
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: out-of-band-operations.patch
>
>
> S3Guard was initially done on the premise that a new MetadataStore would be 
> the source of truth, and that it wouldn't provide guarantees if updates were 
> done without using S3Guard.
> I've been seeing increased demand for better support for scenarios where 
> operations are done on the data that can't reasonably be done with S3Guard 
> involved. For example:
> * A file is deleted using S3Guard, and replaced by some other tool. S3Guard 
> can't tell the difference between the new file and delete / list 
> inconsistency and continues to treat the file as deleted.
> * An S3Guard-ed file is overwritten by a longer file by some other tool. When 
> reading the file, only the length of the original file is read.
> We could possibly have smarter behavior here by querying both S3 and the 
> MetadataStore (even in cases where we may currently only query the 
> MetadataStore in getFileStatus) and use whichever one has the higher modified 
> time.
> This kills the performance boost we currently get in some workloads with the 
> short-circuited getFileStatus, but we could keep it with authoritative mode 
> which should give a larger performance boost. At least we'd get more 
> correctness without authoritative mode and a clear declaration of when we can 
> make the assumptions required to short-circuit the process. If we can't 
> consider S3Guard the source of truth, we need to defer to S3 more.
> We'd need to be extra sure of any locality / time zone issues if we start 
> relying on mod_time more directly, but currently we're tracking the 
> modification time as returned by S3 anyway.



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