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Christian Kunz commented on HADOOP-3914:
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Hairong, thank you for doing this -- I did not get around to it so quickly.
> checksumOk implementation in DFSClient can break applications
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> Key: HADOOP-3914
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3914
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.17.1
> Reporter: Christian Kunz
> Assignee: Christian Kunz
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.19.0
>
> Attachments: checksumOk.patch, patch.HADOOP-3914
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> One of our non-map-reduce applications (written in C and using libhdfs to
> access dfs) stopped working after switch from 0.16 to 0.17.
> The problem was finally traced down to failures in checksumOk.
> I would assume, the purpose of checksumOk is for a DfsClient to indicate to a
> sending Datanode that the checksum of the received block is okay. This must
> be useful in the replication pipeline.
> How checksumOk is implemented is that any IOException is caught and ignored,
> probably because it is not essential for the client that the message is
> successful.
> But it proved fatal for our application because this application links in a
> 3rd-party library which seems to catch socket exceptions before libhdfs.
> Why was there an Exception? In our case the application reads a file into the
> local buffer of the DFSInputStream large enough to hold all data, the
> application reads to the end and the checksumOK is sent successfully at that
> time. But then the application does some other stuff and comes back to
> re-read the file (still open). It is then when it calls checksumOk again and
> crashes.
> It can easily be avoided by adding a Boolean making sure that checksumOk is
> called exactly once when EOS is encountered. Redundant calls to checksumOk do
> not seem to make sense anyhow.
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