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Todd Lipcon commented on HDFS-1262:
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I don't think that solution #3 works - it's only in HBase's case that we
stubbornly keep trying to call append() forever. The assumption should be that
if we get an IOException out of append() then we don't hold the lease on the
file.
> Failed pipeline creation during append leaves lease hanging on NN
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>
> Key: HDFS-1262
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1262
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: hdfs client, name-node
> Affects Versions: 0.20-append
> Reporter: Todd Lipcon
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 0.20-append
>
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> Ryan Rawson came upon this nasty bug in HBase cluster testing. What happened
> was the following:
> 1) File's original writer died
> 2) Recovery client tried to open file for append - looped for a minute or so
> until soft lease expired, then append call initiated recovery
> 3) Recovery completed successfully
> 4) Recovery client calls append again, which succeeds on the NN
> 5) For some reason, the block recovery that happens at the start of append
> pipeline creation failed on all datanodes 6 times, causing the append() call
> to throw an exception back to HBase master. HBase assumed the file wasn't
> open and put it back on a queue to try later
> 6) Some time later, it tried append again, but the lease was still assigned
> to the same DFS client, so it wasn't able to recover.
> The recovery failure in step 5 is a separate issue, but the problem for this
> JIRA is that the NN can think it failed to open a file for append when the NN
> thinks the writer holds a lease. Since the writer keeps renewing its lease,
> recovery never happens, and no one can open or recover the file until the DFS
> client shuts down.
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