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[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-944) Redundant field: DatanodeDescriptor.isAlive

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-944?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12468351 ] 

dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-944:
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I agree. 

We also should keep in mind that reducing the number of calls to gettimeofday() is a good thing.

> Redundant field: DatanodeDescriptor.isAlive
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-944
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-944
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
>
> The lastUpdate field should be used for determining whether the data-node is dead or alive.
> The DatanodeDescriptor should have isAlive() method rather than the field.
> Synchronizing different fields having the same meaning often leads to mistakes.

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