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Daryn Sharp commented on HDFS-6840:
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I'd like complete removal of the random seed. Why allow users the option of
"shooting themselves in the foot"? As far as I can tell, the seed was added
due a misunderstanding that former behavior was deterministic? I cannot
envision a use case where all off-rack clients bombarding a single node is a
good idea.
> Clients are always sent to the same datanode when read is off rack
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> Key: HDFS-6840
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6840
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.5.0
> Reporter: Jason Lowe
> Priority: Critical
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> After HDFS-6268 the sorting order of block locations is deterministic for a
> given block and locality level (e.g.: local, rack. off-rack), so off-rack
> clients all see the same datanode for the same block. This leads to very
> poor behavior in distributed cache localization and other scenarios where
> many clients all want the same block data at approximately the same time.
> The one datanode is crushed by the load while the other replicas only handle
> local and rack-local requests.
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