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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-1557:
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> The Namenode should remove and replace corrupt replicas when they are 
> reported by clients/datanodes, probably on read to start off with.

That's already done.  When a checksum error is encountered, and there's more 
than one replica, the offending replica is removed.

> Deletion of excess replicas should prefer to delete corrupted replicas before 
> deleting valid replicas
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-1557
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1557
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: dfs
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>
> Suppose a block has three replicas and two of the replicas are corrupted. If 
> the replication factor of the file is reduced to 2. The filesystem should 
> preferably delete the two corrupted replicas, otherwise it could lead to a 
> corrupted file.
> One option would be to make the datanode periodically validate all blocks 
> with their corresponding CRCs. The other option would be to make the 
> setReplication call validate existing replicas before deleting excess 
> replicas.

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