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Arun Suresh updated HDFS-7858:
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    Fix Version/s: 2.8.0

> Improve HA Namenode Failover detection on the client
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-7858
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7858
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: hdfs-client
>            Reporter: Arun Suresh
>            Assignee: Arun Suresh
>              Labels: BB2015-05-TBR
>             Fix For: 2.8.0
>
>         Attachments: HDFS-7858.1.patch, HDFS-7858.10.patch, 
> HDFS-7858.10.patch, HDFS-7858.11.patch, HDFS-7858.12.patch, 
> HDFS-7858.13.patch, HDFS-7858.2.patch, HDFS-7858.2.patch, HDFS-7858.3.patch, 
> HDFS-7858.4.patch, HDFS-7858.5.patch, HDFS-7858.6.patch, HDFS-7858.7.patch, 
> HDFS-7858.8.patch, HDFS-7858.9.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



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