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[jira] [Created] (HDFS-8486) DN startup may cause severe data loss

Daryn Sharp created HDFS-8486:
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             Summary: DN startup may cause severe data loss
                 Key: HDFS-8486
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8486
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: datanode
    Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha, 0.23.1
            Reporter: Daryn Sharp
            Assignee: Daryn Sharp
            Priority: Blocker


A race condition between block pool initialization and the directory scanner may cause a mass deletion of blocks in multiple storages.

If block pool initialization finds a block on disk that is already in the replica map, it deletes one of the blocks based on size, GS, etc.  Unfortunately it _always_ deletes one of the blocks even if identical, thus the replica map _must_ be empty when the pool is initialized.

The directory scanner starts at a random time within its periodic interval (default 6h).  If the scanner starts very early it races to populate the replica map, causing the block pool init to erroneously delete blocks.



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