Re: Retry question

[Rita <rm...@gmail.com>]

Got it.

Now, what is the default number of retries? Does the client try infinite
times? Also, how can I tweak this? I would like the client to retry 100
times.



On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The libhdfs picks up from the same configuration source as other
> components (i.e., from hdfs-site.xml, via launch classpath).
>
> Losing a complete rack, on a rack-aware and healthy HDFS cluster, will
> not cause failures in reads or writes.
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Rita <rm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the libhdfs how can I throttle the number of retries?
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Marcos Ortiz <ml...@uci.cu> wrote:
> >>
> >> HDFS is precisely built with these concerns in mind.
> >> If you read a 60 GB file and the rack goes down, the system
> >> will present to you transparently another copy, based on your
> >> replication factor.
> >> A block can not be available too due to corruption, and in this case,
> >> it can be replicated to other live machines and fix the error with
> >> the fsck utility.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3/18/2012 9:46 AM, Rita wrote:
> >>>
> >>> My replication factor is 3 and if I were reading data thru libhdfs
> using
> >>> C is there a retry method? I am reading a 60gb file and what would will
> >>> happen if a rack goes down and the next block isn't available? Will the
> >>> API retry? is there a way t configuration this option?
> >>>
> >>>
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