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Aaron T. Myers commented on HDFS-4238:
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Please correct me if I misunderstand this issue, but it seems the title of this
JIRA isn't accurate. If I understand the scenario described, the standby NN
never purged any files from the shared storage - only the active did that. The
trouble is that this resulted in the standby not having sufficient transactions
in the shared edits dir to be able to become active, since its fsimage was so
out of date.
If my understanding is correct, let's please change the title.
> [HA] Standby namenode should not do purging of shared storage edits.
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> Key: HDFS-4238
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4238
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: ha
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.0.2-alpha
> Reporter: Vinay
>
> This happened in our cluster,
> >> Standby NN was keep doing checkpoint every one hour and uploading to
> >> Active NN was continuously failing due to some kerberos issue and nobody
> >> noticed this, since Active was servicing properly.
> >> Active NN was up for long time with fsimage having very least transaction.
> >> Standby NN has saved the checkpoint in its name dir and purged the txns >
> >> 1000000 from shared storage ( includes edits which are not present in
> >> Active NN's fsimage)
> >> After some time Active NN is restarted and StandBy NN switched to Active.
> Now current Standby not able to load any edits from shared storage, as
> expected edits are not present in shared storage. Its keep running idle.
> So {{editLog.purgeLogsOlderThan(purgeLogsFrom);}} always should be called
> from Active NameNode.
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