[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-3811) Improve exception during held commits sent back to clients from BatchWriter

["Josh Elser (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Josh Elser created ACCUMULO-3811:
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             Summary: Improve exception during held commits sent back to clients from BatchWriter
                 Key: ACCUMULO-3811
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3811
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: client, tserver
            Reporter: Josh Elser
             Fix For: 1.8.0


Running CI on 1.7.0_rc3, I'm noticing that with datanode agitation, I'm frequently seeing the BatchWriter die.

It seems to be that when the ingester is trying to flush right after a datanode dies, the system is polling to minor compact, which blocks the flush and ultimately results in throwing a HoldTimeoutException.

It might be due to under-replication that there are no other datanode available to serve the necessary block, but it's a good example of how clients have no way to recover from this case. Client should be able to know if the system is blocking writes and be able to wait and then retry their update. Right now they just see an opaque AccumuloSecurityException without reason as to the nature of the failure.



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