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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-5034:
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+1 for 0.19.

> NameNode should send both both replication and deletion requests to DataNode 
> in one reply to a heartbeat
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-5034
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5034
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: dfs
>            Reporter: Hairong Kuang
>            Assignee: Hairong Kuang
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
>         Attachments: blockTransferInvalidate.patch
>
>
> Currently NameNode favors block replication requests over deletion requests. 
> On reply to a heartbeat, NameNode does not send a block deletion request 
> unless there is no block replication request. 
> This brings a problem when a near-full cluster loses a bunch of DataNodes. In 
> react to the DataNode loss, NameNode starts to replicate blocks. However, 
> replication takes a lot of cpu and a lot of replications fail because of the 
> lack of disk space. So the administrator tries to delete some DFS files to 
> free up space. However, block deletion requests get delayed for very long 
> time because it takes a long time to drain the block replication requests for 
> most DataNodes.
> I'd like to propose to let NameNode to send both replication requests and 
> deletion requests to DataNodes in one reply to a heartbeat. This also implies 
> that the replication monitor should schedule both replication and deletion 
> work in one iteration.

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