Aaron T. Myers created HDFS-6563: ------------------------------------ Summary: NameNode cannot save fsimage in certain circumstances when snapshots are in use Key: HDFS-6563 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6563 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: namenode, snapshots Affects Versions: 2.4.0 Reporter: Aaron T. Myers Assignee: Aaron T. Myers Priority: Critical
Checkpoints will start to fail and the NameNode will not be able to manually saveNamespace if the following set of steps occurs: # A zero-length file appears in a snapshot # That file is later lengthened to include at least one block # That file is subsequently deleted from the present file system but remains in the snapshot More details in the first comment. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)