[jira] [Created] (HADOOP-12614) Add a generic .isOffline() method to filesystems to probe availability

["Steve Loughran (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Steve Loughran created HADOOP-12614:
---------------------------------------

             Summary: Add a generic .isOffline() method to filesystems to probe availability
                 Key: HADOOP-12614
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12614
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: fs
    Affects Versions: 2.7.1
            Reporter: Steve Loughran
            Priority: Minor


Looking at some of the spark `HistoryServer` code, they do reflection games to check whether HDFS is in safe mode or not, games which vary with version and could be at risk of failing with the client/server split (fortunately, it's all client-side). Nor do the checks apply to other filesystems, which could have their own online/offline state.

I propose adding the new methods {{FileSystem.isOffline()}}, {{FileContext.isOffline()}}, to return true if an FS knows that it is offline. For HDFS: Safe mode. For other filesystems? Maybe network state, disk being r/W, etc. Their choice. The default would be false: an FS is not offline,

obvously, {{!isOffline()}} doesn't guarantee the FS is fully functional; that's why I propose {{isOffline()}}; less dangerous than the opposite values of {{isLive()}} or {{isAvailable()}}, which may be making promises which cannot hold 



--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.3.4#6332)