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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HDFS-1108: ------------------------------------------- Data loss on failover is not acceptable. I thought that all transactions will be passed to the standby node and processed in RAM there, but not synced to disk. On failover you will have completely up to date namespace in SBN. No need to sync. > Log newly allocated blocks > -------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1108 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1108 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: name-node > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: Todd Lipcon > Fix For: HA branch (HDFS-1623) > > Attachments: HDFS-1108.patch, hdfs-1108-habranch.txt, hdfs-1108.txt > > > The current HDFS design says that newly allocated blocks for a file are not > persisted in the NN transaction log when the block is allocated. Instead, a > hflush() or a close() on the file persists the blocks into the transaction > log. It would be nice if we can immediately persist newly allocated blocks > (as soon as they are allocated) for specific files. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira