[HDFS-5080] BootstrapStandby not working with QJM when the existing NN is active

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.1-beta
• Component/s: ha, qjm
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jing Zhao
• Reporter: Jing Zhao
• Created: 08/Aug/13 22:29
• Updated: 16/May/23 08:40
• Resolved: 15/Aug/13 17:38

Description

Currently when QJM is used, running BootstrapStandby while the existing NN is active can get the following exception:

FATAL ha.BootstrapStandby: Unable to read transaction ids 6175397-6175405 from the configured shared edits storage. Please copy these logs into the shared edits storage or call saveNamespace on the active node.
Error: Gap in transactions. Expected to be able to read up until at least txid 6175405 but unable to find any edit logs containing txid 6175405
java.io.IOException: Gap in transactions. Expected to be able to read up until at least txid 6175405 but unable to find any edit logs containing txid 6175405
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.checkForGaps(FSEditLog.java:1300)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.selectInputStreams(FSEditLog.java:1258)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.ha.BootstrapStandby.checkLogsAvailableForRead(BootstrapStandby.java:229)

Looks like the cause of the exception is that, when the active NN is queries by BootstrapStandby about the last written transaction ID, the in-progress edit log segment is included. However, when journal nodes are asked about the last written transaction ID, in-progress edit log is excluded. This causes BootstrapStandby#checkLogsAvailableForRead to complain gaps.

To fix this, we can either let journal nodes take into account the in-progress editlog, or let active NN exclude the in-progress edit log segment.

Issue Links

• is related to: HDFS-5459 fix bootstrapStandby race condition introduced in HDFS-5080
• relates to: HDFS-3752 BOOTSTRAPSTANDBY for new Standby node will not work just after saveNameSpace at ANN in case of BKJM