[HADOOP-2658] Design and Implement a Test Plan to support appends to HDFS files

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.0
• Component/s: test
• Assignee: Dhruba Borthakur
• Reporter: Dhruba Borthakur
• Created: 18/Jan/08 18:14
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 21/Oct/08 19:00

Description

HADOOP-1700 describes the design of supporting appends to HDFS files. This feature needs extensive testing, especially because the design explicitly analyzes many failure scenarios. A detailed test plan and test cases are needed to make this feature a reality.

Issue Links

• blocks: HADOOP-1700 Append to files in HDFS
• is depended upon by: HADOOP-3790 Add more unit tests to test appending to files in HDFS
• is related to: HADOOP-3874 TestFileAppend2.testComplexAppend sometimes fails
• is related to: HADOOP-3614 TestLeaseRecovery fails when run with assertions enabled.
• is related to: HADOOP-3883 TestFileCreation fails once in a while
• is related to: HADOOP-4257 TestLeaseRecovery2.testBlockSynchronization failing.
• is related to: HADOOP-4278 TestDatanodeDeath failed occasionally
• is related to: HADOOP-4423 FSDataset.getStoredBlock(id) should not return corrupted information
• is related to: HDFS-200 In HDFS, sync() not yet guarantees data available to the new readers
• is related to: HADOOP-4279 write the random number generator seed to log in the append-related tests