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Sameer Paranjpye commented on HADOOP-1134:
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> Without manual override, Namenode waits for all the nodes that were known to 
> complete their upgrade

Why should upgrade completion depend on the set of Datanodes present? Datanodes 
can come and go, what matters is the number of blocks that have been upgraded. 
Wouldn't it be better to declare victory when all blocks have been upgraded? 
All blocks may not be available, of course, and in the event of that occuring 
the manual override can be used.


> 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
>            Assignee: Raghu Angadi
>         Attachments: bc-no-upgrade-05302007.patch, 
> DfsBlockCrcDesign-05305007.htm, readBuffer.java, readBuffer.java
>
>
> 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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