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Ravi Prakash commented on HDFS-8344:
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The retry time is a reflection of how long the administrator is willing to wait
before saying "I have waited so long to wait for the node to come back. But
after this much time the node is surely not coming back" so I will mark this
block as missing. I am completely open to how long the default value should be
(as long as its not infinity). There are arguments to keeping this time short
e.g. admins might want to know asap that a node they have removed from the
cluster should be brought back to prevent data loss. Ofcourse there are
arguments for keeping it long too.
> NameNode doesn't recover lease for files with missing blocks
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>
> Key: HDFS-8344
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8344
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: namenode
> Affects Versions: 2.7.0
> Reporter: Ravi Prakash
> Assignee: Ravi Prakash
> Attachments: HDFS-8344.01.patch, HDFS-8344.02.patch,
> HDFS-8344.03.patch, HDFS-8344.04.patch, HDFS-8344.05.patch, HDFS-8344.06.patch
>
>
> I found another\(?) instance in which the lease is not recovered. This is
> reproducible easily on a pseudo-distributed single node cluster
> # Before you start it helps if you set. This is not necessary, but simply
> reduces how long you have to wait
> {code}
> public static final long LEASE_SOFTLIMIT_PERIOD = 30 * 1000;
> public static final long LEASE_HARDLIMIT_PERIOD = 2 *
> LEASE_SOFTLIMIT_PERIOD;
> {code}
> # Client starts to write a file. (could be less than 1 block, but it hflushed
> so some of the data has landed on the datanodes) (I'm copying the client code
> I am using. I generate a jar and run it using $ hadoop jar TestHadoop.jar)
> # Client crashes. (I simulate this by kill -9 the $(hadoop jar
> TestHadoop.jar) process after it has printed "Wrote to the bufferedWriter"
> # Shoot the datanode. (Since I ran on a pseudo-distributed cluster, there was
> only 1)
> I believe the lease should be recovered and the block should be marked
> missing. However this is not happening. The lease is never recovered.
> The effect of this bug for us was that nodes could not be decommissioned
> cleanly. Although we knew that the client had crashed, the Namenode never
> released the leases (even after restarting the Namenode) (even months
> afterwards). There are actually several other cases too where we don't
> consider what happens if ALL the datanodes die while the file is being
> written, but I am going to punt on that for another time.
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