[HADOOP-1286] Distributed cluster upgrade

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Assignee: Konstantin Shvachko
• Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
• Created: 21/Apr/07 02:40
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 11/Jul/07 18:53

Description

Some data layout changes in HDFS require more than just a version upgrade introduced in HADOOP-702,
because the cluster can function properly only when all components have upgraded, and the components
need to communicate to each other and exchange data before they can perform the upgrade.
The CRC upgrade discussed in HADOOP-1134 is one of such examples. Future enhancements like
implementation of appends can change block meta-data and may require distributed upgrades.

Distributed upgrade (DU) starts with a version upgrade (VU) so that at any time one could rollback
all changes and start over.
When VU is finished the name-node enters safe mode and persistently records that the DU have been started.
It will also need to write a record when DU is finished. This is necessary to report unfinished upgrades in case
of failure or for monitoring.

The actual upgrade code from version vO to vN should be implemented in a separate UpgradeObject class,
which implements interface Upgradeable.
We create a new UpgradeObject for each pair of versions vO to vN that require a DU.
We keep a (hard coded) table that determines which UpgradeObject(s) are applicable for the version pairs.
Something like:

Old version	New version	class names
vO1	vN1	NameUpgradeObject1, DataUpgradeObject1
vO2	vN2	NameUpgradeObject2, DataUpgradeObject2

where vO1 < vN1 < vO2 < vN2 ...
Now, if we need to upgrade from version version vX to version vY, we look for all pairs <vOi, vNi>
in the table such that vX < vOi < vNi < vY and perform corresponding DUs one after another as they appear in the table.

Each DU can and most probably should contain multiple UpgradeObjects.
I'd define one object for the name-node and one for the data-nodes.
The upgrade objects (in the same row) can communicate to each other either via existing protocols or using
temporary protocols defined exclusively for this particular upgrade objects.
I envision that some DUs will need to use old (vO) protocols to exchange the pre-upgrade data,
and new (vN) protocols to reoport the upgraded data.

UpgradeObjects should be able to bypass safe mode restrictions, be able to modify name-node data.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: HADOOP-1134 Block level CRCs in HDFS
• is duplicated by: HDFS-2686 Remove DistributedUpgrade related code