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sam rash commented on HDFS-1262:
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i see, it only solves the re-open by the same client problem, but not the
blocking of other clients.
the fact is the client does have the lease and currently the only way to
release it is via close.
in looking at DFSClient.create(), the same problem can occur there. we make a
NN rpc call to get a block and acquire a lease. we then create the
DFSOutputStream (which could fail)
i think that comes back to the need to be able to release a lease without
calling namenode.completeFile().
i guess there's not a clever way to do this with existing namenode RPC and/or
client initiated lease recovery?
> Failed pipeline creation during append leaves lease hanging on NN
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>
> Key: HDFS-1262
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1262
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: hdfs client, name-node
> Affects Versions: 0.20-append
> Reporter: Todd Lipcon
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 0.20-append
>
>
> Ryan Rawson came upon this nasty bug in HBase cluster testing. What happened
> was the following:
> 1) File's original writer died
> 2) Recovery client tried to open file for append - looped for a minute or so
> until soft lease expired, then append call initiated recovery
> 3) Recovery completed successfully
> 4) Recovery client calls append again, which succeeds on the NN
> 5) For some reason, the block recovery that happens at the start of append
> pipeline creation failed on all datanodes 6 times, causing the append() call
> to throw an exception back to HBase master. HBase assumed the file wasn't
> open and put it back on a queue to try later
> 6) Some time later, it tried append again, but the lease was still assigned
> to the same DFS client, so it wasn't able to recover.
> The recovery failure in step 5 is a separate issue, but the problem for this
> JIRA is that the NN can think it failed to open a file for append when the NN
> thinks the writer holds a lease. Since the writer keeps renewing its lease,
> recovery never happens, and no one can open or recover the file until the DFS
> client shuts down.
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