[HADOOP-12078] The default retry policy does not handle RetriableException correctly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 2.7.1, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: ipc
• Target Version/s: 2.7.1
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Arpit Agarwal
• Reporter: Arpit Agarwal
• Created: 09/Jun/15 02:10
• Updated: 06/Jan/17 00:52
• Resolved: 15/Jun/15 21:51

Description

The default policy in RetryUtils does not retry RetriableExceptions even when defaultRetryPolicyEnabled is true.

This was discovered via an HDFS client failing to retry getFileBlockLocations after checkNNStartup failed.

Issue Links

• is related to: HDFS-3443 Fix NPE when namenode transition to active during startup by adding checkNNStartup() in NameNodeRpcServer