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BELUGA BEHR updated HDFS-13448:
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    Attachment: HDFS-13448.7.patch

> HDFS Block Placement - Ignore Locality for First Block Replica
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-13448
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-13448
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: block placement, hdfs-client
>    Affects Versions: 2.9.0, 3.0.1
>            Reporter: BELUGA BEHR
>            Assignee: BELUGA BEHR
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: HDFS-13448.1.patch, HDFS-13448.2.patch, 
> HDFS-13448.3.patch, HDFS-13448.4.patch, HDFS-13448.5.patch, 
> HDFS-13448.6.patch, HDFS-13448.7.patch
>
>
> According to the HDFS Block Place Rules:
> {quote}
> /**
>  * The replica placement strategy is that if the writer is on a datanode,
>  * the 1st replica is placed on the local machine, 
>  * otherwise a random datanode. The 2nd replica is placed on a datanode
>  * that is on a different rack. The 3rd replica is placed on a datanode
>  * which is on a different node of the rack as the second replica.
>  */
> {quote}
> However, there is a hint for the hdfs-client that allows the block placement 
> request to not put a block replica on the local datanode _where 'local' means 
> the same host as the client is being run on._
> {quote}
>   /**
>    * Advise that a block replica NOT be written to the local DataNode where
>    * 'local' means the same host as the client is being run on.
>    *
>    * @see CreateFlag#NO_LOCAL_WRITE
>    */
> {quote}
> I propose that we add a new flag that allows the hdfs-client to request that 
> the first block replica be placed on a random DataNode in the cluster.  The 
> subsequent block replicas should follow the normal block placement rules.
> The issue is that when the {{NO_LOCAL_WRITE}} is enabled, the first block 
> replica is not placed on the local node, but it is still placed on the local 
> rack.  Where this comes into play is where you have, for example, a flume 
> agent that is loading data into HDFS.
> If the Flume agent is running on a DataNode, then by default, the DataNode 
> local to the Flume agent will always get the first block replica and this 
> leads to un-even block placements, with the local node always filling up 
> faster than any other node in the cluster.
> Modifying this example, if the DataNode is removed from the host where the 
> Flume agent is running, or this {{NO_LOCAL_WRITE}} is enabled by Flume, then 
> the default block placement policy will still prefer the local rack.  This 
> remedies the situation only so far as now the first block replica will always 
> be distributed to a DataNode on the local rack.
> This new flag would allow a single Flume agent to distribute the blocks 
> randomly, evenly, over the entire cluster instead of hot-spotting the local 
> node or the local rack.



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