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Eric Sirianni commented on HDFS-5318:
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bq. 1. Block is finalized, r/w replica is lost, r/o replica is available. In
this case the existing NN replication mechanisms will cause an extra replica to
be created
Isn't this case equivalent to the case where the R/W replica is offline in
general (i.e. not just for pipeline recovery)?
bq. q. what happens if a client attempts to append before the replication
happens?
Independent of how replicas are counted, whenever a R/W replica is offline,
appends will not be possible (in the current implementation) until a new R/W
replica is created (via inter-datanode replication from a R/O replica). Are
you proposing a solution to this (ability to create an append pipeline from
only R/O replicas)?
bq. 4. Client should be able to bootstrap a write pipeline with read-only
replicas.
Not sure I fully understand here. Is this how you envision solving the append
problem when R/W replica is offline?
> Pluggable interface for replica counting
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>
> Key: HDFS-5318
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5318
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: namenode
> Affects Versions: 2.4.0
> Reporter: Eric Sirianni
> Attachments: HDFS-5318.patch, hdfs-5318.pdf
>
>
> There are several use cases for using shared-storage for datanode block
> storage in an HDFS environment (storing cold blocks on a NAS device, Amazon
> S3, etc.).
> With shared-storage, there is a distinction between:
> # a distinct physical copy of a block
> # an access-path to that block via a datanode.
> A single 'replication count' metric cannot accurately capture both aspects.
> However, for most of the current uses of 'replication count' in the Namenode,
> the "number of physical copies" aspect seems to be the appropriate semantic.
> I propose altering the replication counting algorithm in the Namenode to
> accurately infer distinct physical copies in a shared storage environment.
> With HDFS-5115, a {{StorageID}} is a UUID. I propose associating some minor
> additional semantics to the {{StorageID}} - namely that multiple datanodes
> attaching to the same physical shared storage pool should report the same
> {{StorageID}} for that pool. A minor modification would be required in the
> DataNode to enable the generation of {{StorageID}} s to be pluggable behind
> the {{FsDatasetSpi}} interface.
> With those semantics in place, the number of physical copies of a block in a
> shared storage environment can be calculated as the number of _distinct_
> {{StorageID}} s associated with that block.
> Consider the following combinations for two {{(DataNode ID, Storage ID)}}
> pairs {{(DN_A, S_A) (DN_B, S_B)}} for a given block B:
> * {{DN_A != DN_B && S_A != S_B}} - *different* access paths to *different*
> physical replicas (i.e. the traditional HDFS case with local disks)
> ** → Block B has {{ReplicationCount == 2}}
> * {{DN_A != DN_B && S_A == S_B}} - *different* access paths to the *same*
> physical replica (e.g. HDFS datanodes mounting the same NAS share)
> ** → Block B has {{ReplicationCount == 1}}
> For example, if block B has the following location tuples:
> * {{DN_1, STORAGE_A}}
> * {{DN_2, STORAGE_A}}
> * {{DN_3, STORAGE_B}}
> * {{DN_4, STORAGE_B}},
> the effect of this proposed change would be to calculate the replication
> factor in the namenode as *2* instead of *4*.
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