[HDFS-14272] [SBN read] ObserverReadProxyProvider should sync with active txnID on startup

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.10.0, 3.3.0, 3.2.1, 3.1.3
• Component/s: tools

Environment

CDH6.1 (Hadoop 3.0.x) + Consistency Reads from Standby + SSL + Kerberos + RPC encryption

• Assignee: Erik Krogen
• Reporter: Wei-Chiu Chuang
• Created: 13/Feb/19 01:22
• Updated: 15/Dec/20 21:02
• Resolved: 01/Mar/19 21:00

Description

It is typical for integration tests to create some files and then check their existence. For example, like the following simple bash script:

# hdfs dfs -touchz /tmp/abc
# hdfs dfs -ls /tmp/abc

The test executes HDFS bash command sequentially, but it may fail with Consistent Standby Read because the -ls does not find the file.

Analysis: the second bash command, while launched sequentially after the first one, is not aware of the state id returned from the first bash command. So ObserverNode wouldn't wait for the the edits to get propagated, and thus fails.

I've got a cluster where the Observer has tens of seconds of RPC latency, and this becomes very annoying. (I am still trying to figure out why this Observer has such a long RPC latency. But that's another story.)

Issue Links

• is related to: HDFS-12943 Consistent Reads from Standby Node