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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-1134:
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> It's worth noting that, if a .crc file cannot be found for a block, then the
> upgrade should probably generate one (along with a warning).
> So that, after the upgrade, all blocks should be guaranteed to have CRC
> files. We still might fail softly when a CRC file is missing,
> logging a warning and either generating CRCs on the fly or regenerating the
> CRC file.
I agree. We will generate local CRC file if we can not find ".crc" file data
with a warning. I think datanode should fail softly with a warning if CRC file
is missing. I don't think it is necessary to regenerate the crc file if one is
missing outside upgrade mode.. it should be normal error condition.
Thanks for feedback. I am preparing an HTML file and will include all the
decisions made till now and later comments for this jira. Will attach the HTML
file here.
> Block level CRCs in HDFS
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>
> Key: HADOOP-1134
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1134
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: Raghu Angadi
> Assigned To: Raghu Angadi
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> Currently CRCs are handled at FileSystem level and are transparent to core
> HDFS. See recent improvement HADOOP-928 ( that can add checksums to a given
> filesystem ) regd more about it. Though this served us well there a few
> disadvantages :
> 1) This doubles namespace in HDFS ( or other filesystem implementations ). In
> many cases, it nearly doubles the number of blocks. Taking namenode out of
> CRCs would nearly double namespace performance both in terms of CPU and
> memory.
> 2) Since CRCs are transparent to HDFS, it can not actively detect corrupted
> blocks. With block level CRCs, Datanode can periodically verify the checksums
> and report corruptions to namnode such that name replicas can be created.
> We propose to have CRCs maintained for all HDFS data in much the same way as
> in GFS. I will update the jira with detailed requirements and design. This
> will include same guarantees provided by current implementation and will
> include a upgrade of current data.
>
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