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Hairong Kuang commented on HADOOP-5724:
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I took a look at the code again. I saw that fsnamesystem puts blocks in the
deleted file into invalidate blocks set in the end of file deletion.
> if NN indeed deleted the blocks when the files are deleted, there is not much
> motivation/need for this jira.
This is the reason that we are holding off this patch.
> Datanode should report deletion of blocks to Namenode explicitly
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>
> Key: HADOOP-5724
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5724
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
> Assignee: Suresh Srinivas
> Fix For: 0.21.0
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> Attachments: blockdel.patch, blockdel.patch
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> Currently datanode notifies namenode newly added blocks and the blocks that
> are corrupt. There is no explicit message from the datanode to the namenode
> to indicate the deletion of blocks. Block reports from the datanode is the
> only way for the namenode to learn about the deletion of blocks at a
> datanode. With the addition of explicit request to indicate to block
> deletion, block report interval (which is currently 1 hour) can be increased
> to a longer duration. This reduces load on both namenode and datanodes.
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