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Todd Lipcon commented on HDFS-3161: ----------------------------------- Hi Uma/Vinay. I ran into an issue like this without use of append(): - Client writing blk_N_GS1 to DN1, DN9, DN10 - Pipeline failed. commitBlockSynchronization succeeded with DN9 and DN10, sets gs to blk_N_GS2 - Client closes the pipeline - NN issues replication request of blk_N_GS2 from DN9 to DN1 - DN1 already has blk_N_GS1 in its ongoingCreates map I'm not sure if this can cause any serious issue with the block (it didn't in my case), but I agree that, if a replication request happens for a block with a higher genstamp, it should interrupt the old block's ongoingCreate. If the replication request is a lower genstamp, it should be ignored. > 20 Append: Excluded DN replica from recovery should be removed from DN. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-3161 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3161 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: suja s > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 1.0.3 > > > 1) DN1->DN2->DN3 are in pipeline. > 2) Client killed abruptly > 3) one DN has restarted , say DN3 > 4) In DN3 info.wasRecoveredOnStartup() will be true > 5) NN recovery triggered, DN3 skipped from recovery due to above check. > 6) Now DN1, DN2 has blocks with generataion stamp 2 and DN3 has older > generation stamp say 1 and also DN3 still has this block entry in > ongoingCreates > 7) as part of recovery file has closed and got only two live replicas ( from > DN1 and DN2) > 8) So, NN issued the command for replication. Now DN3 also has the replica > with newer generation stamp. > 9) Now DN3 contains 2 replicas on disk. and one entry in ongoing creates with > referring to blocksBeingWritten directory. > When we call append/ leaseRecovery, it may again skip this node for that > recovery as blockId entry still presents in ongoingCreates with startup > recovery true. > It may keep continue this dance for evry recovery. > And this stale replica will not be cleaned untill we restart the cluster. > Actual replica will be trasferred to this node only through replication > process. > Also unnecessarily that replicated blocks will get invalidated after next > recoveries.... -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira