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Aaron T. Myers commented on HDFS-1973: -------------------------------------- Any feedback on the above proposal? Sanjay/Suresh - I'd particularly like your feedback since you guys have a lot of viewfs expertise, and some of this is similar/related. > HA: HDFS clients must handle namenode failover and switch over to the new > active namenode. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-1973 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1973 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Suresh Srinivas > Assignee: Aaron T. Myers > > During failover, a client must detect the current active namenode failure and > switch over to the new active namenode. The switch over might make use of IP > failover or some thing more elaborate such as zookeeper to discover the new > active. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira