I am using cloudera's distribution version:
hadoop-0.20.2+738.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Ted Dunning <tdunn...@maprtech.com> wrote:

> What version are you using?
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Thanh Do <than...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have recently seen silent data loss in our system.
>> Here is the case:
>>
>> 1. client appends to some block
>> 2. for some reason, commitBlockSynchronization
>>     returns successfully with synclist = [] (i.e empty)
>> 3. in the client code, NO exception is thrown, and
>>    client appends successfully.
>> 4. However, the block replicas are then removed from
>>    datanodes, causing data loss.
>>
>> Have any one seen this before?
>> Is this behavior by design or a bug?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Thanh
>>
>>
>>
>>
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