Haohui Mai created HDFS-5891:
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             Summary: webhdfs should not try connecting the DN during 
redirection
                 Key: HDFS-5891
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5891
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Haohui Mai
            Assignee: Haohui Mai


When the webhdfs server in NN serves an {{OPEN}} request, the NN will 
eventually redirect the request to a DN. The current implementation intends to 
choose the active DNs. The code always connects to the DN in a deterministic 
order to see whether it is active during redirection.

Although it reduces the chance of the client from connecting to a failed DN, 
this is problematic because:

# It has no guarantees that the client can connect to that DN even if the NN 
can connect to it.
# It requires an additional network round-trip for every {{OPEN}} / {{CREATE}} 
request.

This jira proposes that the NN should choose the DN based on the information of 
the data node manager.



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