Adar Dembo has posted comments on this change. ( 
http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/12075 )

Change subject: KUDU-2636: LBM supports deleting dead and full containers
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Patch Set 2:

(1 comment)

http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/12075/1/src/kudu/fs/log_block_manager.cc
File src/kudu/fs/log_block_manager.cc:

http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/12075/1/src/kudu/fs/log_block_manager.cc@1179
PS1, Line 1179:
              : ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
              : // LogBlockCreationTransaction
              : ////////////////
> Agree with point 1 and 3.
Point 2 is spelled out in more detail in Repair(). I'll copy the relevant 
comment:

  // Delete all dead containers.
  //
  // After the deletions, the data directory is sync'ed to reduce the chance
  // of a data file existing without its corresponding metadata file (or vice
  // versa) in the event of a crash. The block manager would treat such a case
  // as corruption and require manual intervention.
  //
  // TODO(adar) the above is not fool-proof; a crash could manifest in between
  // any pair of deletions. That said, the odds of it happening are incredibly
  // rare, and manual resolution isn't hard (just delete the existing file).

To go into more detail, the concern here is that once we start deleting files, 
a machine crash could lead to any subset of the deleted files coming back to 
life, regardless of the order in which they were deleted. Without a SyncDir() 
call, this vulnerability window is as long as the filesystem's journal commit 
period. On ext4 that's given by the 'commit' mount option, which defaults to 5s.



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