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Suresh Srinivas commented on HADOOP-5724:
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I also ran the following manual test:
# Setup HDFS with a long block replication timeout
{{dfs.blockreport.intervalMsec}}
# Create a bunch of files in multiple directories
# Delete one directory at a time and ensure on the NameNode web UI, the block
count in Cluster Summary decreases
> 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
>
> Attachments: blockdel-1.patch, blockdel-2.patch, blockdel.patch,
> blockdel.patch
>
>
> 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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