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Harsh J commented on HDFS-2936:
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Nicholas,
Would it be acceptable to you if I instead let the dfs.replication.min behave
in the same way it does today (by its description, preventing closure of files
until replication has been achieved) and instead introduce the new property as
a different name, which applies to just set file creation/setrep limits,
thereby separating the two?
> File close()-ing hangs indefinitely if the number of live blocks does not
> match the minimum replication
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> Key: HDFS-2936
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2936
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: name-node
> Affects Versions: 0.23.0
> Reporter: Harsh J
> Assignee: Harsh J
> Attachments: HDFS-2936.patch
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> If an admin wishes to enforce replication today for all the users of their
> cluster, he may set {{dfs.namenode.replication.min}}. This property prevents
> users from creating files with < expected replication factor.
> However, the value of minimum replication set by the above value is also
> checked at several other points, especially during completeFile (close)
> operations. If a condition arises wherein a write's pipeline may have gotten
> only < minimum nodes in it, the completeFile operation does not successfully
> close the file and the client begins to hang waiting for NN to replicate the
> last bad block in the background. This form of hard-guarantee can, for
> example, bring down clusters of HBase during high xceiver load on DN, or disk
> fill-ups on many of them, etc..
> I propose we should split the property in two parts:
> * dfs.namenode.replication.min
> ** Stays the same name, but only checks file creation time replication factor
> value and during adjustments made via setrep/etc.
> * dfs.namenode.replication.min.for.write
> ** New property that disconnects the rest of the checks from the above
> property, such as the checks done during block commit, file complete/close,
> safemode checks for block availability, etc..
> Alternatively, we may also choose to remove the client-side hang of
> completeFile/close calls with a set number of retries. This would further
> require discussion about how a file-closure handle ought to be handled.
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