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[jira] Created: (HDFS-1539) prevent data loss when a cluster suffers a power loss

prevent data loss when a cluster suffers a power loss
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                 Key: HDFS-1539
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1539
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: data-node, hdfs client, name-node
            Reporter: dhruba borthakur


we have seen an instance where a external outage caused many datanodes to reboot at around the same time.  This resulted in many corrupted blocks. These were recently written blocks; the current implementation of HDFS Datanodes do not sync the data of a block file when the block is closed.

1. Have a cluster-wide config setting that causes the datanode to sync a block file when a block is finalized.
2. Introduce a new parameter to the FileSystem.create() to trigger the new behaviour, i.e. cause the datanode to sync a block-file when it is finalized.
3. Implement the FSDataOutputStream.hsync() to cause all data written to the specified file to be written to stable storage.

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