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Eli Collins commented on HDFS-2709:
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bq.  Rather than modify EditLogFileInputStream to take a startTxId, why not do 
the  "skipping" (what you call setInitialPosition) from the caller?

Had the same thought, was thinking it was internal so that in the future we 
could skip ahead w/o actually reading the logs, but no reason we can't have a 
skip API and use that outside ELFIS as well.

                
> HA: Appropriately handle error conditions in EditLogTailer
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-2709
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2709
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: ha, name-node
>    Affects Versions: HA branch (HDFS-1623)
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>            Assignee: Aaron T. Myers
>            Priority: Critical
>         Attachments: HDFS-2709-HDFS-1623.patch, HDFS-2709-HDFS-1623.patch, 
> HDFS-2709-HDFS-1623.patch
>
>
> Currently if the edit log tailer experiences an error replaying edits in the 
> middle of a file, it will go back to retrying from the beginning of the file 
> on the next tailing iteration. This is incorrect since many of the edits will 
> have already been replayed, and not all edits are idempotent.
> Instead, we either need to (a) support reading from the middle of a finalized 
> file (ie skip those edits already applied), or (b) abort the standby if it 
> hits an error while tailing. If "a" isn't simple, let's do "b" for now and 
> come back to 'a' later since this is a rare circumstance and better to abort 
> than be incorrect.

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