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Suresh Srinivas commented on HDFS-2179: --------------------------------------- I have not reviewed the patch yet. Just looking from the high level, why should this be in namenode package? Is this not generic enough that it should be in common? > HA: namenode fencing mechanism > ------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-2179 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2179 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: name-node > Reporter: Todd Lipcon > Assignee: Todd Lipcon > Fix For: HA branch (HDFS-1623) > > Attachments: hdfs-2179.txt, hdfs-2179.txt, hdfs-2179.txt > > > In an HA cluster, when there are two NNs, the invariant that only one NN is > active at a time has to be preserved in order to prevent "split brain > syndrome." Thus, when a standby NN is transition to "active" state during a > failover, it needs to somehow _fence_ the formerly active NN to ensure that > it can no longer perform edits. This JIRA is to discuss and implement NN > fencing. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira