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Ming Ma commented on HDFS-8647:
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Thanks [~brahmareddy] for the useful analysis! My preference is to keep the
current behavior so that auto replication continue to work as long as there is
no NN restart. That provides stronger data durability.
Ideally HDFS should support auto replication for the case where # of rack
changes from 1 to 2 after NN's restart. But that requires more work and it is
an existing issue. You can open a new jira for that.
> Abstract BlockManager's rack policy into BlockPlacementPolicy
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> Key: HDFS-8647
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8647
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ming Ma
> Assignee: Brahma Reddy Battula
> Attachments: HDFS-8647-001.patch, HDFS-8647-002.patch,
> HDFS-8647-003.patch
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> Sometimes we want to have namenode use alternative block placement policy
> such as upgrade domains in HDFS-7541.
> BlockManager has built-in assumption about rack policy in functions such as
> useDelHint, blockHasEnoughRacks. That means when we have new block placement
> policy, we need to modify BlockManager to account for the new policy. Ideally
> BlockManager should ask BlockPlacementPolicy object instead. That will allow
> us to provide new BlockPlacementPolicy without changing BlockManager.
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