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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Duplicate
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Description
We found incorrect offset and length calculation in pipeline recovery may cause block corruption and results in missing blocks under a very unfortunate scenario.
(1) A client established pipeline and started writing data to the pipeline.
(2) One of the data node in the pipeline restarted, closing the socket, and some written data were unacknowledged.
(3) Client replaced the failed data node with a new one, initiating block transfer to copy existing data in the block to the new datanode.
(4) The block is transferred to the new node. Crucially, the entire block, including the unacknowledged data, was transferred.
(5) The last chunk (512 bytes) was not a full chunk, but the destination still reserved the whole chunk in its buffer, and wrote the entire buffer to disk, therefore some written data is garbage.
(6) When the transfer was done, the destination data node converted the replica from temporary to rbw, which made its visible length as the length of bytes on disk. That is to say, it thought whatever was transferred was acknowledged. However, the visible length of the replica is different (round up to the next multiple of 512) than the source of transfer. [1]
(7) Client then truncated the block in the attempt to remove unacknowledged data. However, because the visible length is equivalent of the bytes on disk, it did not truncate unacknowledged data.
(8) When new data was appended to the destination, it skipped the bytes already on disk. Therefore, whatever was written as garbage was not replaced.
(9) the volume scanner detected corrupt replica, but due to HDFS-10512, it wouldn’t tell NameNode to mark the replica as corrupt, so the client continued to form a pipeline using the corrupt replica.
(10) Finally the DN that had the only healthy replica was restarted. NameNode then update the pipeline to only contain the corrupt replica.
(11) Client continue to write to the corrupt replica, because neither client nor the data node itself knows the replica is corrupt. When the restarted datanodes comes back, their replica are stale, despite they are not corrupt. Therefore, none of the replica is good and up to date.
The sequence of events was reconstructed based on DataNode/NameNode log and my understanding of code.
Incidentally, we have observed the same sequence of events on two independent clusters.
[1]
The sender has the replica as follows:
2016-04-15 22:03:05,066 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.fsdataset.impl.FsDatasetImpl: Recovering ReplicaBeingWritten, blk_1556997324_1100153495099, RBW
getNumBytes() = 41381376
getBytesOnDisk() = 41381376
getVisibleLength()= 41186444
getVolume() = /hadoop-i/data/current
getBlockFile() = /hadoop-i/data/current/BP-1043567091-10.1.1.1-1343682168507/current/rbw/blk_1556997324
bytesAcked=41186444
bytesOnDisk=41381376
while the receiver has the replica as follows:
2016-04-15 22:03:05,068 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.fsdataset.impl.FsDatasetImpl: Recovering ReplicaBeingWritten, blk_1556997324_1100153495099, RBW
getNumBytes() = 41186816
getBytesOnDisk() = 41186816
getVisibleLength()= 41186816
getVolume() = /hadoop-g/data/current
getBlockFile() = /hadoop-g/data/current/BP-1043567091-10.1.1.1-1343682168507/current/rbw/blk_1556997324
bytesAcked=41186816
bytesOnDisk=41186816
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HDFS-10632 DataXceiver to report the length of the block it's receiving
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