Github user revans2 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1574
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I am OK with this change, like I am OK with the change for STORM-1976. I
just don't think that this is the final solution for the local
blobstore+nimbus, nor do I think that either is a blocker. The reality is if
I use HDFS as the backing for the blobstore and I only set it to have a single
replica, then I lose a datanode, nimbus will still crash in almost exactly the
same way. Is this a bug in nimbus? Is it a bug in the blobstore or HDFS? I
would say no. It is user error because the user is trying to make something HA
without configuring it properly. Then when an error happens we cannot recover.
So the question is, if it does happen is it better for nimbus to crash or is it
better for nimbus to hang? Because all this does is it switches from one to
the other. I can see advantages for hanging over crashing, so I am OK with
this fix.
Does the blobstore code have bugs in it and things that we can change to
make it work better? I would expect it to, it is software after all. I just
want us to spend some time thinking about how we really want it to behave and
fix it properly. If that proper fix comes after making a few patches to
improve things, that is fine.
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