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Todd Lipcon commented on HDFS-1578: ----------------------------------- bq. Todd, I really like your proposal of including data transfer version # in DN's descriptor. Is there a simple way of making this work without breaking protocol compatiblity? Hmm, you're trying to add a compatibility layer that is itself compatible with previous versions? Seems tricky, since we'd have to add a field to DatanodeInfo... so, no, no good ideas if that is a goal. > First step towards data transter protocol compatibility: support > DatanodeProtocol#getDataTransferProtocolVersion > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1578 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1578 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Hairong Kuang > Assignee: Hairong Kuang > Fix For: 0.23.0 > > > HADOOP-6904 allows us to handle RPC changes in a compatible way. However, we > have one more protocol to take care of, the data transfer protocol, which a > dfs client uses to read data from or write data to a datanode. > > My proposal is to add a new RPC getDataTransferVersion to DatanodeProtocol > that returns the data transfer protocol version running on the datanode. A > dfs client gets the datanode's version number before it reads from/writes to > a datanode. With this, the dfs client could behave differently according to > datanode's data transfer version. This provides a base for us to make data > transfer protocol changes in a compatible way. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.