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Harsh J Chouraria commented on HDFS-1590:
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I hit this as well a couple of weeks ago. Would be nice to have it fixed.
What could be considered as a "safe replica #s available" level? A min. of 3? A
formula based on rounded-off average replication factor? Your ideas please! :)
> Decommissioning never ends when node to decommission has blocks that are
> under-replicated and cannot be replicated to the expected level of replication
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> Key: HDFS-1590
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1590
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: name-node
> Affects Versions: 0.20.2
> Environment: Linux
> Reporter: Mathias Herberts
> Priority: Minor
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> On a test cluster with 4 DNs and a default repl level of 3, I recently
> attempted to decommission one of the DNs. Right after the modification of the
> dfs.hosts.exclude file and the 'dfsadmin -refreshNodes', I could see the
> blocks being replicated to other nodes.
> After a while, the replication stopped but the node was not marked as
> decommissioned.
> When running an 'fsck -files -blocks -locations' I saw that all files had a
> replication of 4 (which is logical given there are 4 DNs), but some of the
> files had an expected replication set to 10 (those were job.jar files from
> M/R jobs).
> I ran 'fs -setrep 3' on those files and shortly after the namenode reported
> the DN as decommissioned.
> Shouldn't this case be checked by the NameNode when decommissioning a node?
> I.e considere a node decommissioned if either one of the following is true
> for each block on the node being decommissioned:
> 1. It is replicated more than the expected replication level.
> 2. It is replicated as much as possible given the available nodes, even
> though it is less replicated than expected.
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