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Kan Zhang commented on HDFS-592: -------------------------------- > Only a client who is doing pipeline recovery (or already holding the lease) Actually, "already holding the lease" is not a good description either since a client who is writing a new block (and hence holding the lease) shouldn't use this method to get token. > Allow client to get a new generation stamp from NameNode > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-592 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-592 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: name-node > Affects Versions: Append Branch > Reporter: Hairong Kuang > Assignee: Hairong Kuang > Fix For: Append Branch > > Attachments: newGS.patch, newGS1.patch > > > This issue aims to add an API to ClientProtocol that fetches a new > generation stamp and an access token from NameNode to support append or > pipeline recovery. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.