[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-158?page=all ]
Sameer Paranjpye reassigned HADOOP-158:
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Assign To: Konstantin Shvachko
> dfs block ids sometimes collide
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>
> Key: HADOOP-158
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-158
> Project: Hadoop
> Type: Bug
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Assignee: Konstantin Shvachko
> Fix For: 0.2
>
> A random number generator is used to allocate block ids in dfs. Sometimes a
> block id is allocated that is already used in the filesystem, which causes
> filesystem corruption.
> A short-term fix for this is to simply check when allocating block ids
> whether any file is already using the newly allocated id, and, if it is,
> generate another one. There can still be collisions in some rare conditions,
> but these are harder to fix and will wait, since this simple fix will handle
> the vast majority of collisions.
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