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Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze commented on HDFS-742:
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[~mitdesai], sorry for the late review. The patch looks good. Could you
update the patch with current trunk?
> A down DataNode makes Balancer to hang on repeatingly asking NameNode its
> partial block list
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> Key: HDFS-742
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-742
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: balancer & mover
> Reporter: Hairong Kuang
> Assignee: Mit Desai
> Attachments: HDFS-742.patch
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> We had a balancer that had not made any progress for a long time. It turned
> out it was repeatingly asking Namenode for a partial block list of one
> datanode, which was done while the balancer was running.
> NameNode should notify Balancer that the datanode is not available and
> Balancer should stop asking for the datanode's block list.
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