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Kan Zhang commented on HDFS-4056:
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bq. Yes, it should work if you fetch the token yourself.
As far as I know, that is not by design.
bq. What would be the confusion?
Suppose some clients are configured to use tokens, some don't. How do you make
sure they did what they are supposed to do? Or you don't care? If a client
happens to use a Hadoop conf that says "use tokens", it will fetch and use
them; otherwise, it won't. Either way it works. It's hard to reason about
cluster behavior, that is what I meant by confusing.
bq. I don't recall a problem ever being root-caused to a stale token file.
May I quote "Past performance is no guarantee of future results"? :)
> Always start the NN's SecretManager
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> Key: HDFS-4056
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4056
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: name-node
> Affects Versions: 0.23.0, 2.0.0-alpha, 3.0.0
> Reporter: Daryn Sharp
> Assignee: Daryn Sharp
> Attachments: HDFS-4056.patch
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> To support the ability to use tokens regardless of whether kerberos is
> enabled, the NN's secret manager should always be started.
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