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Hadoop QA commented on HDFS-7858: --------------------------------- {color:red}-1 overall{color}. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12702886/HDFS-7858.3.patch against trunk revision 952640f. {color:green}+1 @author{color}. The patch does not contain any @author tags. {color:green}+1 tests included{color}. The patch appears to include 1 new or modified test files. {color:green}+1 javac{color}. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings. {color:green}+1 javadoc{color}. There were no new javadoc warning messages. {color:green}+1 eclipse:eclipse{color}. The patch built with eclipse:eclipse. {color:green}+1 findbugs{color}. The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs (version 2.0.3) warnings. {color:green}+1 release audit{color}. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings. {color:red}-1 core tests{color}. The patch failed these unit tests in hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs: org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.TestDecommission org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.TestBalancer Test results: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HDFS-Build/9752//testReport/ Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HDFS-Build/9752//console This message is automatically generated. > Improve HA Namenode Failover detection on the client > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-7858 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7858 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Arun Suresh > Assignee: Arun Suresh > Attachments: HDFS-7858.1.patch, HDFS-7858.2.patch, HDFS-7858.2.patch, > HDFS-7858.3.patch > > > 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 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)