So we can test StreamCapabilities in code, in worst case by wrapping some
probe code during startup with try-catch and examining the exception.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 1:09 PM Viraj Jasani <vjas...@apache.org> wrote:

> As of today, both WAL impl (fshlog and asyncfs) throw
> StreamLacksCapabilityException if the FS Data OutputStream probe fails for
> Hflush/Hsync:
>
> StreamLacksCapabilityException(StreamCapabilities.HFLUSH)
> and
> StreamLacksCapabilityException(StreamCapabilities.HSYNC)
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 12:51 PM Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Does Hadoop have a marker interface that lets an application know its
> > FileSystem instances can support hsync/hflush? Ideally all we should need
> > to do is test with instanceof for that marker and use reflection (in the
> > worst case) to get a handle to the hsync or hflush method, and then call
> > it. This approach should be taken wherever we have a requirement to use a
> > special WAL specific API provided by the underlying FileSystem, so we can
> > abstract it sufficiently to not require a direct dependency on Ozone or
> S3A
> > or any non HDFS filesystem.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 12:31 PM Tak Lon (Stephen) Wu <tak...@apache.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi team,
> > >
> > > Recently, Wei-Chiu and I have been discussing about if HBase can use
> > > Ozone as another storage as WAL (see the hsync and hflush JIRAs [1])
> > > and HFile, for HFile it’s pluggable by configuring the file system to
> > > use Ozone File System (Ozone)
> > >
> > > But we found that the WAL it’s a bit different, especially
> > > RecoverLeaseFSUtils#recoverFileLease [2], it has one check about if
> > > the file system is an instance of HDFS, and thus WAL recovery to
> > > execute file lease recovery from RS crashes. Here, if we would like to
> > > add Ozone, it does not matter by importing as a direct dependency to
> > > perform similar lease recovery or via reflection by class name in
> > > plaintext String, we still need to somehow introduce Ozone to be
> > > another supported file system. (we can discuss how we can implement
> > > better as well)
> > >
> > > We also found other places e.g. FSUtils and HFileSystem have used
> > > DistributedFileSystem, but it should be able to move them into either
> > > hbase-asyncfs or a new FS related component to separate the use of
> > > different supported file systems.
> > >
> > > So, we’re wondering if anyone would have any objections to adding
> > > Ozone as a dependency to hbase-asyncfs? or if you have a better idea
> > > how this could be added without adding Ozone as dependency, please
> > > feel free to comment on this thread.
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] Ozone is working on support for hsync and hflush,
> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDDS-7593,
> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDDS-4353
> > > [2] RecoverLeaseFSUtils#recoverFileLease,
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/hbase/blob/master/hbase-asyncfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/RecoverLeaseFSUtils.java#L53-L63
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Stephen
>

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