DataNode restarts may introduce corrupt/duplicated/lost replicas when handling 
detached replicas
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                 Key: HDFS-550
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-550
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: data-node
    Affects Versions: 0.21.0
            Reporter: Hairong Kuang
            Assignee: Hairong Kuang
            Priority: Blocker
             Fix For: Append Branch


Current trunks calls first unlinks a finalized replica before appending to this 
block. Unlink is done by temporally copying the block file in the "current" 
subtree to a directory called "detach" under the volume's daa directory and 
then copies it back when unlink succeeds. On datanode restarts, datanodes 
recover faied unlink by copying replicas under "detach" to "current".

There are two bugs with this implementation:
1. The "detach" directory does not include in a snapshot. so rollback will 
cause the "detaching" replicas to be lost.
2. After a replica is copied to the "detach" directory, the information of its 
original location is lost. The current implementation erroneously assumes that 
the replica to be unlinked is under "current". This will make two instances of 
replicas with the same block id coexist in a datanode. Also if the replica 
under "detach" is corrupt, the corrupt replica is moved to "current" without 
being detected, polluting datanode data. 

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