[HADOOP-3418] NameNode does not restart if parent directory of a "FileUnderConstruction" is deleted.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Tsz-wo Sze
• Reporter: Raghu Angadi
• Created: 20/May/08 03:06
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:43
• Resolved: 11/Jun/08 05:02

Description

How to reproduce :

$ bin/hadoop fs -put largeFile tmp/tmpFile
...before this finishes
$ bin/hadoop fs -rmr tmp
Now restart NameNode.
Restart fails with :

2008-05-20 02:21:34,731 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode: java.io.IOException: saveLeases found path /user/rangadi/tmp/tmpFile but no matching entry in namespace.
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.saveFilesUnderConstruction(FSNamesystem.java:4215)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.saveFSImage(FSImage.java:848)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.saveFSImage(FSImage.java:866)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSDirectory.loadFSImage(FSDirectory.java:82)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.initialize(FSNamesystem.java:273)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:253)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:148)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:193)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:179)

Issue Links

• blocks: HDFS-2255 Improve NameNode metrics to distinguish between InodeDirectory and InodeFiles