[HADOOP-882] S3FileSystem should retry if there is a communication problem with S3

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: fs
• Assignee: Thomas White
• Reporter: Thomas White
• Created: 11/Jan/07 09:16
• Updated: 02/Mar/07 23:02
• Resolved: 09/Feb/07 20:49

Description

File system operations currently fail if there is a communication problem (IOException) with S3. All operations that communicate with S3 should retry a fixed number of times before failing.

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-997 Implement S3 retry mechanism for failed block transfers