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Todd Lipcon commented on HDFS-4403:
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Hi Suresh. I don't see how that would be incompatible. You can add or remove
defaults and maintain compatibility as far as I can imagine. What client/server
combination would not work given this change?
> DFSClient can infer checksum type when not provided by reading first byte
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> Key: HDFS-4403
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4403
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: hdfs-client
> Affects Versions: 2.0.2-alpha
> Reporter: Todd Lipcon
> Assignee: Todd Lipcon
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: hdfs-4403.txt
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> HDFS-3177 added the checksum type to OpBlockChecksumResponseProto, but the
> new protobuf field is optional, with a default of CRC32. This means that this
> API, when used against an older cluster (like earlier 0.23 releases) will
> falsely return CRC32 even if that cluster has written files with CRC32C. This
> can cause issues for distcp, for example.
> Instead of defaulting the protobuf field to CRC32, we can leave it with no
> default, and if the OpBlockChecksumResponseProto has no checksum type set,
> the client can send OP_READ_BLOCK to read the first byte of the block, then
> grab the checksum type out of that response (which has always been present)
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