[jira] [Resolved] (HDFS-1224) Stale connection makes node miss append

["Allen Wittenauer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1224?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Allen Wittenauer resolved HDFS-1224.
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    Resolution: Incomplete

append got overhauled in 2.x. closing.

> Stale connection makes node miss append
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-1224
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1224
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: datanode
>    Affects Versions: 0.20-append
>            Reporter: Thanh Do
>
> - Summary: if a datanode crashes and restarts, it may miss an append.
>  
> - Setup:
> + # available datanodes = 3
> + # replica = 3 
> + # disks / datanode = 1
> + # failures = 1
> + failure type = crash
> + When/where failure happens = after the first append succeed
>  
> - Details:
> Since each datanode maintains a pool of IPC connections, whenever it wants
> to make an IPC call, it first looks into the pool. If the connection is not there, 
> it is created and put in to the pool. Otherwise the existing connection is used.
> Suppose that the append pipeline contains dn1, dn2, and dn3. Dn1 is the primary.
> After the client appends to block X successfully, dn2 crashes and restarts.
> Now client writes a new block Y to dn1, dn2 and dn3. The write is successful.
> Client starts appending to block Y. It first calls dn1.recoverBlock().
> Dn1 will first create a proxy corresponding with each of the datanode in the pipeline
> (in order to make RPC call like getMetadataInfo( )  or updateBlock( )). However, because
> dn2 has just crashed and restarts, its connection in dn1's pool become stale. Dn1 uses
> this connection to make a call to dn2, hence an exception. Therefore, append will be
> made only to dn1 and dn3, although dn2 is alive and the write of block Y to dn2 has
> been successful.
> This bug was found by our Failure Testing Service framework:
> http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2010/EECS-2010-98.html
> For questions, please email us: Thanh Do (thanhdo@cs.wisc.edu) and 
> Haryadi Gunawi (haryadi@eecs.berkeley.edu)



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