[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-3727) FileNotFoundException on failed/data during recovery

["William Slacum (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

William Slacum created ACCUMULO-3727:
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             Summary: FileNotFoundException on failed/data during recovery
                 Key: ACCUMULO-3727
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3727
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: tserver
    Affects Versions: 1.5.2
            Reporter: William Slacum


Over night there was a mass failure of Accumulo (most likely due to too many mappers for a job). After restarting Accumulo, one of the metadata tablets failed to load. There was a log message showing a `FileNotFoundException` on the file `hdfs:///accumulo/recovery/<log id>/failed/data`. Removing the `<log id>` directory from HDFS seemed to unclog the jam and things came back (though potentially with data loss).

I wanted to investigate why somewhere in the plumbing of `TabletServer`, `TabletServerLogger`, and `SortedLogRecovery`, an attempt was made to use the `failure` file.

I see in `SortedLogRecovery#sort` where the marker file gets created:

{code}
public void sort(String name, Path srcPath, String destPath) {
...
      } catch (Throwable t) {
        try {
          // parent dir may not exist
          fs.mkdirs(new Path(destPath));
          fs.create(new Path(destPath, "failed")).close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
          log.error("Error creating failed flag file " + name, e);
        }
        log.error(t, t);
      } finally {
...
{code}

I have not stepped out to figure out where/why the `failed` files gets included in the list of recovered data dir.



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