[HDFS-2165] The Intelligent Clients should switch dynamically according to the Namenode switchover & the operations that fail during the switching should be retried on the newly Active Namenode.

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: datanode, hdfs-client, namenode
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Justin Joseph
• Created: 19/Jul/11 12:07
• Updated: 22/Feb/13 11:08
• Resolved: 22/Feb/13 11:08

Description

Here we consider DataNode and DFSClient as clients to the Namenode. When Active Namenode goes down and Standby takes over the role, the clients should understand it and communicate to the newly Active Namenode from that point of time.