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Suresh Srinivas commented on HDFS-1975:
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I and Jitendra considered Transaction ID before looking at GS. Transaction ID
does not work because there are three parties involved - client, datanode and
namenode.
Take this example:
# DN1 sends heartbeat to primary NN at txid T and learns about T.
# A client meanwhile creates a file at T+1 and allocates block at T+2.
# DN1 now is unable to send heartbeat or communicate with primary NN. Hence it
is stuck at transaction T.
# Client complets writing a block to DN1. DN1 reports this to backup node as
block received with T. At this point in time, if SNN has reached T and has not
processed T+1 or T+2, it tries to handle BR(T), because it can. However, it
fails to process it without the knowledge of the file.
We could get around this, if client also is tracking transactions and sends it
to the datanode, adding unnecessary complexity and changes.
> HA: Support for sharing the namenode state from active to standby.
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> Key: HDFS-1975
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1975
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: name-node
> Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
> Assignee: Jitendra Nath Pandey
> Attachments: hdfs-1975.txt, hdfs-1975.txt
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> To enable hot standby namenode, the standby node must have current
> information for - namenode state (image + edits) and block location
> information. This jira addresses keeping the namenode state current in the
> standby node. To do this, the proposed solution in this jira is to use a
> shared storage to store the namenode state.
> Note one could also build an alternative solution by augmenting the backup
> node. A seperate jira could explore this.
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