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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HDFS-1539: ---------------------------------------------- Interestingly, TestFileCreation fails in branch-1 (with and without the patch) but not branch-1.1. I will file a JIRA for it. > prevent data loss when a cluster suffers a power loss > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1539 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1539 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: data-node, hdfs client, name-node > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: dhruba borthakur > Fix For: 0.23.0 > > Attachments: syncOnClose1.txt, syncOnClose2_b-1.txt, syncOnClose2.txt > > > we have seen an instance where a external outage caused many datanodes to > reboot at around the same time. This resulted in many corrupted blocks. > These were recently written blocks; the current implementation of HDFS > Datanodes do not sync the data of a block file when the block is closed. > 1. Have a cluster-wide config setting that causes the datanode to sync a > block file when a block is finalized. > 2. Introduce a new parameter to the FileSystem.create() to trigger the new > behaviour, i.e. cause the datanode to sync a block-file when it is finalized. > 3. Implement the FSDataOutputStream.hsync() to cause all data written to the > specified file to be written to stable storage. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira