Details
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Sub-task
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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HA branch (HDFS-1623)
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Description
This is the approach for client failover which we adopted when we developed HA for Hadoop. I would like to propose thia approach for others to review & include in the HA implementation, if found useful.
This is similar to the ConfiguredProxyProvider in the sense that the it takes the address of both the Namenodes as the input. The major differences I can see from the current implementation are
1) During failover, user threads can be controlled very accurately about the time they wait for active namenode to be available, awaiting the retry. Beyond this, the threads will not be made to wait; DFS Client will throw an Exception indicating that the operation has failed.
2) Failover happens in a seperate thread, not in the client application threads. The thread will keep trying to find the Active Namenode until it succeeds.
3) This also means that irrespective of whether the operation's RetryAction is RETRY_FAILOVER or FAIL, the user thread can trigger the client's failover.