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Chen Liang commented on HDFS-14963:
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Thanks for the proposal, very interesting indeed! I've always been wondering
about any caching opportunities on client side. Just two minor concerns as of
now:
# managing the cache file can be tricky. e.g. if the file is under /tmp, there
is always a chance it gets accidentally deleted/modified by something outside
of HDFS. If not under /tmp, file created by user X may not be accessible for
user Y.
# when failover happens, the active changes, so I guess we need to update the
file? we will need to make sure the update works correctly. e.g. don't have
multiple clients all writing to the cache file at the same time
But I guess in the worst case we can always fall back to what we have today, so
these are probably fine.
> Add HDFS Client machine caching active namenode index mechanism.
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>
> Key: HDFS-14963
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-14963
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: hdfs-client
> Affects Versions: 3.1.3
> Reporter: Xudong Cao
> Assignee: Xudong Cao
> Priority: Minor
>
> In multi-NameNodes scenery, a new hdfs client always begins a rpc call from
> the 1st namenode, simply polls, and finally determines the current Active
> namenode.
> This brings at least two problems：
> # Extra failover consumption, especially in the case of frequent creation of
> clients.
> # Unnecessary log printing, suppose there are 3 NNs and the 3rd is ANN, and
> then a client starts rpc with the 1st NN, it will be silent when failover
> from the 1st NN to the 2nd NN, but when failover from the 2nd NN to the 3rd
> NN, it prints some unnecessary logs, in some scenarios, these logs will be
> very numerous:
> {code:java}
> 2019-11-07 11:35:41,577 INFO retry.RetryInvocationHandler:
> org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(org.apache.hadoop.ipc.StandbyException):
> Operation category READ is not supported in state standby. Visit
> https://s.apache.org/sbnn-error
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.ha.StandbyState.checkOperation(StandbyState.java:98)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode$NameNodeHAContext.checkOperation(NameNode.java:2052)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.checkOperation(FSNamesystem.java:1459)
> ...{code}
> We can introduce a solution for this problem: in client machine, for every
> hdfs cluster, caching its current Active NameNode index in a separate cache
> file named by its uri. *Note these cache files are shared by all hdfs client
> processes on this machine*.
> For example, suppose there are hdfs://ns1 and hdfs://ns2, and the client
> machine cache file directory is /tmp, then:
> # the ns1 cluster related cache file is /tmp/ns1
> # the ns2 cluster related cache file is /tmp/ns2
> And then:
> # When a client starts, it reads the current Active NameNode index from the
> corresponding cache file based on the target hdfs uri, and then directly make
> an rpc call toward the right ANN.
> # After each time client failovers, it need to write the latest Active
> NameNode index to the corresponding cache file based on the target hdfs uri.
>
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