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Bikas Saha commented on HDFS-7858:
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We need to be careful about how many clients can be supported by ZK (either
pinging for info or watchers). ZK is typically a shared service with YARN/HBase
etc.
> Improve HA Namenode Failover detection on the client using Zookeeper
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> Key: HDFS-7858
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7858
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Arun Suresh
> Assignee: Arun Suresh
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> In an HA deployment, Clients are configured with the hostnames of both the
> Active and Standby Namenodes.Clients will first try one of the NNs
> (non-deterministically) and if its a standby NN, then it will respond to the
> client to retry the request on the other Namenode.
> If the client happens to talks to the Standby first, and the standby is
> undergoing some GC / is busy, then those clients might not get a response
> soon enough to try the other NN.
> Proposed Approach to solve this :
> 1) Since Zookeeper is already used as the failover controller, the clients
> could talk to ZK and find out which is the active namenode before contacting
> it.
> 2) Long-lived DFSClients would have a ZK watch configured which fires when
> there is a failover so they do not have to query ZK everytime to find out the
> active NN
> 2) Clients can also cache the last active NN in the user's home directory
> (~/.lastNN) so that short-lived clients can try that Namenode first before
> querying ZK
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