> On March 21, 2014, 7:46 p.m., Sean Busbey wrote:
> > Can you include a functional test that replicates the catastrophic failure 
> > that prompted ACCUMULO-2520 to verify that this change stops it?
> 
> kturner wrote:
>     Like a functional test?  Changes in the unit test cover this case, but 
> not in an end to end way.

Yeah, given the severity of the failure mode, I'd really like an end-to-end. I 
also think a functional test is more likely to catch a future regression.


On March 21, 2014, 7:46 p.m., kturner wrote:
> > Once this is forward ported to 1.6.0-SNAP, will it have to switch to 
> > absolute paths? both absolute and relative?
> >
> 
> kturner wrote:
>     I did a good bit of refactoring of the GC as part of ACCUMULO-1773 to 
> make it more testable and to handle abs/rel paths.   I also added more sanity 
> checks to the GC.  I have not yet determined if those checks will cover this 
> case. At the very least 1.6.0 will need to add new test.
>     
>     I think the diffs for 1.6.0 will be very different.  I was thinking that 
> once these changes are reviewed, that maybe I could post another set of diffs 
> for 1.6.0.  Not sure what the best way to handle this is.   I wanted to wait 
> on merging this change forward locally in case some major issue came up in 
> the review.

That sounds reasonable.


- Sean


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> (Updated March 21, 2014, 7:27 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for accumulo.
> 
> 
> Bugs: ACCUMULO-2520
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2520
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> 
> Repository: accumulo
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> 
> Description
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> 
> This change should make the GC more robust against the case of it deleting 
> things it should not.  A concern with this change is that may make the GC 
> fail in a situation where it should not, which could cause hdfs to fill.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   
> src/server/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/server/gc/SimpleGarbageCollector.java
>  22c3c0e 
>   
> src/server/src/test/java/org/apache/accumulo/server/gc/SimpleGarbageCollectorTest.java
>  PRE-CREATION 
>   
> src/server/src/test/java/org/apache/accumulo/server/gc/TestConfirmDeletes.java
>  be444dd 
> 
> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/19546/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> Added unit test
> Ran 1.4.5-SNAPSHOT and verified GC worked and deleted an orphaned file
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> kturner
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