Hey everyone,We're going through a review of our usage of HDFS (it's a good thing! - we're trying to get "official"). One reviewer asked a good question that I don't know the answer too - could you help? To quote,
"What steps do you take to ensure the block rebalancing produces non- corrupted files? Do you have to wait 2 weeks before you discover this?"
I believe the correct answer is: """When a block is replicated from one node to another, only the resulting block size is checked. The checksums on the source and destination are not compared. Therefore, if there's any corruption that occurs, it would take until the next block verification to detect it.
"""If you look at TCP error rates and random memory corruptions, it wouldn't be surprising to see silent errors in copying between nodes, especially on multi-hundred-TB or PB scale installs.
Any comments? Brian
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