Hi Tom, Not creating a temp file is the ideal as it saves you from having to "waste" using the local hard disk by writing an output file just before uploading same to Amazon S3. There are a few problems though:
1) Amazon S3 PUTs need the file length up front. You could use a chunked POST, but then you have the disadvantage of having to Base64 encode all your data, increasing bandwidth usage, and also you still have the next problems; 2) You would still want to have MD5 checking. In Amazon S3 both PUT and POST require the MD5 to be supplied before the contents. To work around this then you would have to upload the object without MD5, then check its metadata to make sure the MD5 is correct, then delete it if it is not. This is all possible, but would be difficult to make bulletproof, whereas in the current version, if the MD5 is different the PUT fails atomically and you can easily just retry. 3) Finally, you would have to be careful in reducers that output only very rarely. If there is too big a gap between data being uploaded through the socket, then S3 may determine the connection has timed out, closing the connection and meaning your task has to rerun (perhaps just to hit the same problem again). All of this means that the current solution may be best for now as far as general upload. The best I think we can so is fix the fact that the task is not progressed in close(). The best way I can see to do this is introducing a new interface say called ExtendedClosable which defines a close(Progressable p) method. Then, have the various clients of FileSystem output streams (e.g. Distcp, TextOutputFormat) test if their DataOutputStream supports the interface, and if so call this in preference to the default. In the case of NativeS3FileSystem then, this method spins up a thread to keep the Progressable updated as the upload progresses. As an additional optimization to Distcp, where the source file already exists we could have some extended interface say ExtendedWriteFileSystem that has a create() method that takes the MD5 and the file size, then test for this interface in the Distcp mapper call the extended method. The trade off here is the fact that the checksum HDFS stored is not the MD5 needed by S3, and so two (perhaps distributed) reads would be needed so the tradeoff is these two distributed reads vs a distributed read and a local write then local read. What do you think? Cheers, Ian Nowland Amazon.com -----Original Message----- From: Tom White [mailto:t...@cloudera.com] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 1:36 AM To: core-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: HDFS to S3 copy problems Perhaps we should revisit the implementation of NativeS3FileSystem so that it doesn't always buffer the file on the client. We could have an option to make it write directly to S3. Thoughts? Regarding the problem with HADOOP-3733, you can work around it by setting fs.s3.awsAccessKeyId and fs.s3.awsSecretAccessKey in your hadoop-site.xml. Cheers, Tom On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Andrew Hitchcock <adpow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ken, > > S3N doesn't work that well with large files. When uploading a file to > S3, S3N saves it to local disk during write() and then uploads to S3 > during the close(). Close can take a long time for large files and it > doesn't report progress, so the call can time out. > > As a work around, I'd recommend either increasing the timeout or > uploading the files by hand. Since you only have a few large files, > you might want to copy the files to local disk and then use something > like s3cmd to upload them to S3. > > Regards, > Andrew > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Ken Krugler <kkrugler_li...@transpac.com> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a few large files (4 that are 1.8GB+) I'm trying to copy from HDFS to >> S3. My micro EC2 cluster is running Hadoop 0.19.1, and has one master/two >> slaves. >> >> I first tried using the hadoop fs -cp command, as in: >> >> hadoop fs -cp output/<dir>/ s3n://<bucket>/<dir>/ >> >> This seemed to be working, as I could walk the network traffic spike, and >> temp files were being created in S3 (as seen with CyberDuck). >> >> But then it seemed to hang. Nothing happened for 30 minutes, so I killed the >> command. >> >> Then I tried using the hadoop distcp command, as in: >> >> hadoop distcp hdfs://<host>:50001/<path>/<dir>/ s3://<public key>:<private >> key>@<bucket>/<dir2>/ >> >> This failed, because my secret key has a '/' in it >> (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3733) >> >> Then I tried using hadoop distcp with the s3n URI syntax: >> >> hadoop distcp hdfs://<host>:50001/<path>/<dir>/ s3n://<bucket>/<dir2>/ >> >> Similar to my first attempt, it seemed to work. Lots of network activity, >> temp files being created, and in the terminal I got: >> >> 09/05/07 18:36:11 INFO mapred.JobClient: Running job: job_200905071339_0004 >> 09/05/07 18:36:12 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 0% reduce 0% >> 09/05/07 18:36:30 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 9% reduce 0% >> 09/05/07 18:36:35 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 14% reduce 0% >> 09/05/07 18:36:38 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 20% reduce 0% >> >> But again it hung. No network traffic, and eventually it dumped out: >> >> 09/05/07 18:52:34 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : >> attempt_200905071339_0004_m_000001_0, Status : FAILED >> Task attempt_200905071339_0004_m_000001_0 failed to report status for 601 >> seconds. Killing! >> 09/05/07 18:53:02 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : >> attempt_200905071339_0004_m_000004_0, Status : FAILED >> Task attempt_200905071339_0004_m_000004_0 failed to report status for 602 >> seconds. Killing! >> 09/05/07 18:53:06 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : >> attempt_200905071339_0004_m_000002_0, Status : FAILED >> Task attempt_200905071339_0004_m_000002_0 failed to report status for 602 >> seconds. Killing! >> 09/05/07 18:53:09 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : >> attempt_200905071339_0004_m_000003_0, Status : FAILED >> Task attempt_200905071339_0004_m_000003_0 failed to report status for 601 >> seconds. Killing! >> >> In the task GUI, I can see the same tasks failing, and being restarted. But >> the restarted tasks seem to be just hanging w/o doing anything. >> >> Eventually one of the tasks made a bit more progress, but then it finally >> died with: >> >> Copy failed: java.io.IOException: Job failed! >> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.runJob(JobClient.java:1232) >> at org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp.copy(DistCp.java:647) >> at org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp.run(DistCp.java:844) >> at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) >> at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79) >> at org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp.main(DistCp.java:871) >> >> So - any thoughts on what's going wrong? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- Ken >> -- >> Ken Krugler >> +1 530-210-6378 >> >
