Meaning of UNDER_RECOVERY blocks

Hi, I had an instance where a datanode died while writing the block I am using Hadoop 2.0 patched with HDFS 3703 for stale node detection every 20 seconds. The block being written to, went into the UNDER_RECOVERY state looking at the namenode logs and there were several internalRecoverLease()

Re: Meaning of UNDER_RECOVERY blocks

Would be nice if someone could help out with this - it looks like a trivial question - but seems like some blocks are being lost for us when datanodes fail... Varun On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Varun Sharma va...@pinterest.com wrote: Hi, I had an instance where a datanode died while