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Robert Joseph Evans commented on STORM-837:
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I agree that we need to overwrite, but the issue with overwrite is that HDFS is
write once. Even append does not really work all that well in any version. So
to overwrite we need to recover the successful data and delete the old file.
> HdfsState ignores commits
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> Key: STORM-837
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-837
> Project: Apache Storm
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Robert Joseph Evans
> Assignee: Arun Mahadevan
> Priority: Critical
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> HdfsState works with trident which is supposed to provide exactly once
> processing. It does this two ways, first by informing the state about
> commits so it can be sure the data is written out, and second by having a
> commit id, so that double commits can be handled.
> HdfsState ignores the beginCommit and commit calls, and with that ignores the
> ids. This means that if you use HdfsState and your worker crashes you may
> both lose data and get some data twice.
> At a minimum the flush and file rotation should be tied to the commit in some
> way. The commit ID should at a minimum be written out with the data so
> someone reading the data can have a hope of deduping it themselves.
> Also with the rotationActions it is possible for a file that was partially
> written is leaked, and never moved to the final location, because it is not
> rotated. I personally think the actions are too generic for this case and
> need to be deprecated.
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