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Alexander Behm commented on HDFS-12222:
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Impala also relies on the BlockLocation array returned from
LocatedFileStatus.getBlockLocations() for scheduling. See for example
HdfsScanNode#computeScanRangeLocations():
https://github.com/apache/incubator-impala/blob/master/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/planner/HdfsScanNode.java
I'm certainly not an HDFS expert, but as a user I'd be happy with something
like a BlockLocation#isParity() method or returning a special invalid value for
BlockLocation#getOffset() for distinguishing between data and parity blocks.
I'm also fine with [~ajayydv]'s proposal to separate the data and parity block
APIs, but I wonder if we can leave the existing getBlockLocations() call and
have it only return data blocks (without parity blocks) for maintaining API
compatibility. In most cases, I don't think users should/will care about the
parity blocks.
> Add EC information to BlockLocation
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>
> Key: HDFS-12222
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-12222
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0-alpha1
> Reporter: Andrew Wang
> Assignee: Huafeng Wang
> Labels: hdfs-ec-3.0-nice-to-have
>
> HDFS applications query block location information to compute splits. One
> example of this is FileInputFormat:
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/d4015f8628dd973c7433639451a9acc3e741d2a2/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/FileInputFormat.java#L346
> You see bits of code like this that calculate offsets as follows:
> {noformat}
> long bytesInThisBlock = blkLocations[startIndex].getOffset() +
> blkLocations[startIndex].getLength() - offset;
> {noformat}
> EC confuses this since the block locations include parity block locations as
> well, which are not part of the logical file length. This messes up the
> offset calculation and thus topology/caching information too.
> Applications can figure out what's a parity block by reading the EC policy
> and then parsing the schema, but it'd be a lot better if we exposed this more
> generically in BlockLocation instead.
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