Mukul Kumar Singh created HDFS-13079:
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Summary: Provide a config to start namenode in safemode state upto
a certain transaction id
Key: HDFS-13079
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-13079
Project: Hadoop HDFS
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: namenode
Reporter: Mukul Kumar Singh
Assignee: Mukul Kumar Singh
While working on some customer cases it necessary to rollback the Namenode back
to a certain transaction id. This is especially needed when the user issues a
{{rm -Rf -skipTrash}}.
Rolling back to a transaction id helps in taking a peek at the filesystem at a
particular instant. This jira proposes to provide a configuration variable
using which the namenode can be started upto a certain transaction id. The
filesystem will be in a readonly safemode which cannot be overridden manually.
It will only be overridden by removing the config value from the config file.
Please note that in case a checkpoint has already happened and the requested
transaction id has been subsumed in an FSImage, then the namenode will be
started with the next nearest transaction id. Further FSImage files and edits
will be ignored.
If the checkpoint hasn't happen then the namenode will be started with the
exact transaction id.
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