Xinwei Qin created HDFS-7876: --------------------------------- Summary: DataNodes start to scan blocks earlier Key: HDFS-7876 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7876 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Improvement Components: datanode, namenode Affects Versions: 3.0.0 Reporter: Xinwei Qin Assignee: Xinwei Qin
When Hadoop cluster restarts, DataNodes will scan local blocks, and report this infomation to NameNode. DataNodes start to scan local blocks after obtaining the NamespaceInfo from NameNode via RPC call versionRequest(), which needs the establishment of NameNode RPC server. Now, the RPC server will not be created and started until the completion of loading FsImage. So, DataNodes cannot start to scan blocks immediately, and must wait for NameNode to load FsImage. This will cause time wasting of DataNode when the FsImage is very large. Since the RPC server has very little dependence of FsImage, and the NamespaceInfo (namespaceID, clustered, blockpoolID, cTime, etc.) can be constructed from VERSION file, we can create and start RPC server before loading FsImage, so that DataNodes can get NamespaceInfo from NameNode via RPC call as soon as possible, and start to scan blocks earlier, which will shorten restart time. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)