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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HDFS-4257:
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Nicholas, the patch no longer applies. Can you rebase it? Or if you're busy,
Yongjun has expressed some interest in working on this, using the approach in
your patch.
> The ReplaceDatanodeOnFailure policies could have a forgiving option
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> Key: HDFS-4257
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4257
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: hdfs-client
> Affects Versions: 2.0.2-alpha
> Reporter: Harsh J
> Assignee: Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: h4257_20140325.patch, h4257_20140325b.patch,
> h4257_20140326.patch
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> Similar question has previously come over HDFS-3091 and friends, but the
> essential problem is: "Why can't I write to my cluster of 3 nodes, when I
> just have 1 node available at a point in time.".
> The policies cover the 4 options, with {{Default}} being default:
> {{Disable}} -> Disables the whole replacement concept by throwing out an
> error (at the server) or acts as {{Never}} at the client.
> {{Never}} -> Never replaces a DN upon pipeline failures (not too desirable in
> many cases).
> {{Default}} -> Replace based on a few conditions, but whose minimum never
> touches 1. We always fail if only one DN remains and none others can be added.
> {{Always}} -> Replace no matter what. Fail if can't replace.
> Would it not make sense to have an option similar to Always/Default, where
> despite _trying_, if it isn't possible to have > 1 DN in the pipeline, do not
> fail. I think that is what the former write behavior was, and what fit with
> the minimum replication factor allowed value.
> Why is it grossly wrong to pass a write from a client for a block with just 1
> remaining replica in the pipeline (the minimum of 1 grows with the
> replication factor demanded from the write), when replication is taken care
> of immediately afterwards? How often have we seen missing blocks arise out of
> allowing this + facing a big rack(s) failure or so?
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