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Vinayakumar B commented on HDFS-6247: ------------------------------------- Thanks [~umamaheswararao] and [~clamb] for the reviews. Committed to trunk and branch-2 > Avoid timeouts for replaceBlock() call by sending intermediate responses to > Balancer > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-6247 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6247 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: balancer, datanode > Affects Versions: 2.4.0 > Reporter: Vinayakumar B > Assignee: Vinayakumar B > Fix For: 2.6.0 > > Attachments: HDFS-6247.patch, HDFS-6247.patch, HDFS-6247.patch, > HDFS-6247.patch, HDFS-6247.patch, HDFS-6247.patch, HDFS-6247.patch, > HDFS-6247.patch > > > Currently there is no response sent from target Datanode to Balancer for the > replaceBlock() calls. > Since the Block movement for balancing is throttled, complete block movement > will take time and this could result in timeout at Balancer, which will be > trying to read the status message. > > To Avoid this during replaceBlock() call in in progress Datanode can send > IN_PROGRESS status messages to Balancer to avoid timeouts and treat > BlockMovement as failed. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)