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Hairong Kuang commented on HADOOP-1470: --------------------------------------- I am moving Raghu and Doug's discussion here since they are more relevant to this issue: Raghu Angadi - [06/Jun/07 02:23 PM ] Attaching an implementation of readBuffer() that handles the retries similar to ChecksumFileSystem. I am planning to use this in my development. IMHO complexity of this should be compared with what is required for HADOOP-1470 (both under fs and dfs). [ Doug Cutting - [06/Jun/07 03:00 PM ] > complexity of this should be compared with what is required for HADOOP-1470 Or perhaps this can be used as a template for the generic version. The only DFS-specific bits are in the catch clause, and they could be factored into an abstract method, no? > Rework FSInputChecker and FSOutputSummer to support checksum code sharing > between ChecksumFileSystem and block level crc dfs > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-1470 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1470 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: fs > Affects Versions: 0.12.3 > Reporter: Hairong Kuang > Assignee: Hairong Kuang > Fix For: 0.14.0 > > > Comment from Doug in HADOOP-1134: > I'd prefer it if the CRC code could be shared with CheckSumFileSystem. In > particular, it seems to me that FSInputChecker and FSOutputSummer could be > extended to support pluggable sources and sinks for checksums, respectively, > and DFSDataInputStream and DFSDataOutputStream could use these. Advantages of > this are: (a) single implementation of checksum logic to debug and maintain; > (b) keeps checksumming as close to possible to data generation and use. This > patch computes checksums after data has been buffered, and validates them > before it is buffered. We sometimes use large buffers and would like to guard > against in-memory errors. The current checksum code catches a lot of such > errors. So we should compute checksums after minimal buffering (just > bytesPerChecksum, ideally) and validate them at the last possible moment > (e.g., through the use of a small final buffer with a larger buffer behind > it). I do not think this will significantly affect performance, and data > integrity is a high priority. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.