[HADOOP-5193] SecondaryNameNode does not rollImage because of incorrect calculation of edits modification time.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.19.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.1
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Konstantin Shvachko
• Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
• Created: 06/Feb/09 19:21
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:43
• Resolved: 08/Feb/09 21:45

Description

Secondary name-node cannot complete the second phase of the checkpoint because getFsEditsTime() returns the mod time of edits.new rather than edits file.
The difference is that edits remains unchanged during the whole checkpoint process an therefore can serve as an invariant. On the contrary edits.new is changing all the time since it is the target of the edits log during checkpoint. So comparison of the mod time of edits.new before and after checkpoint fail and name-node does not upload new image file from the secondary node and does not truncate edits files.