[jira] [Commented] (HADOOP-7397) Allow configurable timeouts when connecting to HDFS via java FileSystem API

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

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Steve Loughran commented on HADOOP-7397:
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This is something I complained about in HADOOP-3456 as clients are within their rights to want different timeouts
                
> Allow configurable timeouts when connecting to HDFS via java FileSystem API
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>                 Key: HADOOP-7397
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7397
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ipc
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.2, 0.23.0
>         Environment: Any
>            Reporter: Scott Fines
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: hadoop
>             Fix For: 0.24.0
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>         Attachments: timeout.patch
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> If the NameNode is not available (in, for example, a network partition event separating the client from the NameNode), and an attempt is made to connect, then the FileSystem api will *eventually* timeout and throw an error. However, that timeout is currently hardcoded to be 20 seconds to connect, with 45 retries, for a total of a 15 minute wait before failure. While in many circumstances this is fine, there are also many circumstances (such as booting a service) where both the connection timeout and the number of retries should be significantly less, so as not to harm availability of other services.
> Investigating Client.java, I see that there are two fields in Connection: maxRetries and rpcTimeout. I propose either re-using those fields for initiating the connection as well; alternatively, using the already existing dfs.socket.timeout parameter to set the connection timeout on initialization, and potentially adding a new field such as dfs.connection.retries with a default of 45 to replicate current behaviors.

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