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stack commented on HDFS-4239: ----------------------------- This is lovely [~jxiang]. The addition of the "+ System.err.println(" [-markDownVolume datanode-host:port location");" is particularly so. In your testing, did you see that after removal of the volume, if the volume's 'in_use.lock' was cleaned up? (See the comment by Andy above -- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4239?focusedCommentId=13506791&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13506791) Thanks. > Means of telling the datanode to stop using a sick disk > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-4239 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4239 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: stack > Assignee: Jimmy Xiang > Attachments: hdfs-4239.patch > > > If a disk has been deemed 'sick' -- i.e. not dead but wounded, failing > occasionally, or just exhibiting high latency -- your choices are: > 1. Decommission the total datanode. If the datanode is carrying 6 or 12 > disks of data, especially on a cluster that is smallish -- 5 to 20 nodes -- > the rereplication of the downed datanode's data can be pretty disruptive, > especially if the cluster is doing low latency serving: e.g. hosting an hbase > cluster. > 2. Stop the datanode, unmount the bad disk, and restart the datanode (You > can't unmount the disk while it is in use). This latter is better in that > only the bad disk's data is rereplicated, not all datanode data. > Is it possible to do better, say, send the datanode a signal to tell it stop > using a disk an operator has designated 'bad'. This would be like option #2 > above minus the need to stop and restart the datanode. Ideally the disk > would become unmountable after a while. > Nice to have would be being able to tell the datanode to restart using a disk > after its been replaced. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)