Github user arunmahadevan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/664#discussion_r37161325 --- Diff: external/storm-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/hdfs/bolt/HdfsBolt.java --- @@ -88,35 +99,94 @@ public void doPrepare(Map conf, TopologyContext topologyContext, OutputCollector @Override public void execute(Tuple tuple) { - try { - byte[] bytes = this.format.format(tuple); - synchronized (this.writeLock) { - out.write(bytes); - this.offset += bytes.length; - - if (this.syncPolicy.mark(tuple, this.offset)) { - if (this.out instanceof HdfsDataOutputStream) { - ((HdfsDataOutputStream) this.out).hsync(EnumSet.of(SyncFlag.UPDATE_LENGTH)); - } else { - this.out.hsync(); - } - this.syncPolicy.reset(); + boolean forceRotate = false; + synchronized (this.writeLock) { + boolean forceSync = false; + if (TupleUtils.isTick(tuple)) { + LOG.debug("TICK! forcing a file system flush"); + forceSync = true; + } + else { + try { + writeAndAddTuple(tuple); + } catch (IOException e) { + //If the write failed, try to sync anything already written + LOG.info("Tuple failed to write, forcing a flush of existing data."); + this.collector.reportError(e); + forceSync = true; + this.collector.fail(tuple); } } - this.collector.ack(tuple); + if (this.syncPolicy.mark(tuple, this.offset) || forceSync) { + try { + syncAndAckTuples(); + } catch (IOException e) { + LOG.warn("Data could not be synced to filesystem, failing this batch of tuples"); + this.collector.reportError(e); + //Force rotation to get a new file handle + forceRotate = true; + for (Tuple t : tupleBatch) + this.collector.fail(t); + tupleBatch.clear(); + } + } + } - if(this.rotationPolicy.mark(tuple, this.offset)){ - rotateOutputFile(); // synchronized - this.offset = 0; - this.rotationPolicy.reset(); + if(this.rotationPolicy.mark(tuple, this.offset) || forceRotate) { + try { + rotateAndReset(); + } catch (IOException e) { + this.collector.reportError(e); + LOG.warn("File could not be rotated"); + //At this point there is nothing to do. In all likelihood any filesystem operations will fail. + //The next tuple will almost certainly fail to write and/or sync, which force a rotation. That + //will give rotateAndReset() a chance to work which includes creating a fresh file handle. } - } catch (IOException e) { - this.collector.reportError(e); - this.collector.fail(tuple); } } + private void rotateAndReset() throws IOException { --- End diff -- What would be the behavior if the file system goes into an irrecoverable state where writes are continuously failing? Wont it end up creating a lot of empty files? You might want to consider cleaning this up and also killing the task by throwing a runtime exception after 'n' failures and hope that the new worker might be able to start writing successfully.
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