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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-724: --------------------------------------- > Dfsclient sends out a heartbeat after the pipeline becomes idle for half of > read timeout. A heartbeat is a special packet with seq# of -1. +1. > Pipeline close hangs if one of the datanode is not responsive. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-724 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-724 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: data-node, hdfs client > Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Assignee: Hairong Kuang > Attachments: h724_20091021.patch > > > In the new pipeline design, pipeline close is implemented by sending an > additional empty packet. If one of the datanode does not response to this > empty packet, the pipeline hangs. It seems that there is no timeout. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.