[jira] [Created] (HDFS-7809) Block and lease recovery failure caused by snapshot issue

["Kihwal Lee (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Kihwal Lee created HDFS-7809:
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             Summary: Block and lease recovery failure caused by snapshot issue
                 Key: HDFS-7809
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7809
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 2.5.0
            Reporter: Kihwal Lee
            Priority: Critical


On a cluster running 2.5, we have observed a decommissioning failure due to a file that had been under construction for 3 days.  It turned out that the file was abandoned and a lease recovery was carried out by the name node 3 days ago.

The block recovery failed because the name node threw a quota exception while serving {{commitBlockSynchronization()}}. After this failure, no further attempt for recovery was made, leaving the file in under-construction state forever.

Furthermore, the nature of the recovery failure is very strange. Even though *snapshot was never used* in the cluster, it was trying to record the diff and that required incrementing {{nsquota}} by 1. The user happened to ran out of his {{nsquota}} at that time, so it failed and caused {{commitBlockSynchronization()}} to fail.  We do see quota discrepancies occasionally. Probably those were caused by something like this all along?

Few observations:
- Lease recovery did not complete, yet didn't get retried.
- No snapshot was in use, but somehow it went through snapshot-related code path.
- quota update during {{commitBlockSynchronization()}} should be done unconditionally.



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