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Arpit Agarwal commented on HDFS-4015:
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Hi [~anu], thanks for addressing the earlier feedback. Feedback on the v2 patch.

# We will likely see blocks with future generation stamps during HDFS rollback. 
We should disable this check if NN has been restarted with a rollback option 
(either regular or rolling upgrade rollback).
# I apologize for not noticing this earlier. {{FsStatus}} is tagged as public 
and stable, so changing the constructor signature is incompatible. Instead we 
could add a new constructor that initializes . This will also avoid changes to 
FileSystem, ViewFS, RawLocalFileSystem
# fsck should also print this new counter. We can do it in a separate Jira.
# Don't consider this a binding but I would really like it if {{bytesInFuture}} 
can be renamed especially where it is exposed via public interfaces/metrics. It 
sounds confusing/ominous. {{bytesWithFutureGenerationStamps}} would be more 
precise.

Still reviewing the test cases.

> Safemode should count and report orphaned blocks
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-4015
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4015
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: namenode
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>            Assignee: Anu Engineer
>         Attachments: HDFS-4015.001.patch, HDFS-4015.002.patch
>
>
> The safemode status currently reports the number of unique reported blocks 
> compared to the total number of blocks referenced by the namespace. However, 
> it does not report the inverse: blocks which are reported by datanodes but 
> not referenced by the namespace.
> In the case that an admin accidentally starts up from an old image, this can 
> be confusing: safemode and fsck will show "corrupt files", which are the 
> files which actually have been deleted but got resurrected by restarting from 
> the old image. This will convince them that they can safely force leave 
> safemode and remove these files -- after all, they know that those files 
> should really have been deleted. However, they're not aware that leaving 
> safemode will also unrecoverably delete a bunch of other block files which 
> have been orphaned due to the namespace rollback.
> I'd like to consider reporting something like: "900000 of expected 1000000 
> blocks have been reported. Additionally, 10000 blocks have been reported 
> which do not correspond to any file in the namespace. Forcing exit of 
> safemode will unrecoverably remove those data blocks"
> Whether this statistic is also used for some kind of "inverse safe mode" is 
> the logical next step, but just reporting it as a warning seems easy enough 
> to accomplish and worth doing.



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