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Zhe Zhang commented on HDFS-9079:
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Thanks [~szetszwo], good question. I think it's compatible. For old clients, 
the "preallocated" GSes are invisible -- it is equivalent to the scenario where 
another client allocates a few new blocks and uses those GSes. 

Unless there are closely controlled unit tests relying on the assumption that 
GSes are allocated continuously without any gap. From Jenkins results there 
aren't any in trunk.

> Erasure coding: preallocate multiple generation stamps and serialize updates 
> from data streamers
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-9079
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9079
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: erasure-coding
>    Affects Versions: HDFS-7285
>            Reporter: Zhe Zhang
>            Assignee: Zhe Zhang
>         Attachments: HDFS-9079-HDFS-7285.00.patch, HDFS-9079.01.patch, 
> HDFS-9079.02.patch, HDFS-9079.03.patch, HDFS-9079.04.patch, HDFS-9079.05.patch
>
>
> A non-striped DataStreamer goes through the following steps in error handling:
> {code}
> 1) Finds error => 2) Asks NN for new GS => 3) Gets new GS from NN => 4) 
> Applies new GS to DN (createBlockOutputStream) => 5) Ack from DN => 6) 
> Updates block on NN
> {code}
> To simplify the above we can preallocate GS when NN creates a new striped 
> block group ({{FSN#createNewBlock}}). For each new striped block group we can 
> reserve {{NUM_PARITY_BLOCKS}} GS's. Then steps 1~3 in the above sequence can 
> be saved. If more than {{NUM_PARITY_BLOCKS}} errors have happened we 
> shouldn't try to further recover anyway.



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