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Arpit Agarwal updated HDFS-8486: -------------------------------- Attachment: HDFS-8486-branch-2.6.patch Patch for branch-2.6. Can someone familiar with the original change code review it? > DN startup may cause severe data loss > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-8486 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8486 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: datanode > Affects Versions: 0.23.1, 2.0.0-alpha > Reporter: Daryn Sharp > Assignee: Daryn Sharp > Priority: Blocker > Labels: 2.6.1-candidate > Fix For: 2.7.1 > > Attachments: HDFS-8486-branch-2.6.patch, HDFS-8486.patch, > HDFS-8486.patch > > > A race condition between block pool initialization and the directory scanner > may cause a mass deletion of blocks in multiple storages. > If block pool initialization finds a block on disk that is already in the > replica map, it deletes one of the blocks based on size, GS, etc. > Unfortunately it _always_ deletes one of the blocks even if identical, thus > the replica map _must_ be empty when the pool is initialized. > The directory scanner starts at a random time within its periodic interval > (default 6h). If the scanner starts very early it races to populate the > replica map, causing the block pool init to erroneously delete blocks. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)