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Ming Ma commented on HDFS-7374:
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Yeah, the idea was to use {{DECOMMISSIONED}} node as the source node only when
there is no {{NORMAL}} node available. Agree it breaks the state definition.
> Allow decommissioning of dead DataNodes
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> Key: HDFS-7374
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7374
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Zhe Zhang
> Assignee: Zhe Zhang
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> We have seen the use case of decommissioning DataNodes that are already dead
> or unresponsive, and not expected to rejoin the cluster.
> The logic introduced by HDFS-6791 will mark those nodes as
> {{DECOMMISSION_INPROGRESS}}, with a hope that they can come back and finish
> the decommission work. If an upper layer application is monitoring the
> decommissioning progress, it will hang forever.
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