[HDFS-7259] Unresponseive NFS mount point due to deferred COMMIT response

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.0
• Component/s: nfs
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Brandon Li
• Reporter: Brandon Li
• Created: 17/Oct/14 20:01
• Updated: 01/Dec/14 03:11
• Resolved: 21/Oct/14 17:21

Description

Since the gateway can't commit random write, it caches the COMMIT requests in a queue and send back response only when the data can be committed or stream timeout (failure in the latter case). This could cause problems two patterns:
(1) file uploading failure
(2) the mount dir is stuck on the same client, but other NFS clients can still access NFS gateway.

The error pattern (2) is because there are too many COMMIT requests pending, so the NFS client can't send any other requests(e.g., for "ls") to NFS gateway with its pending requests limit.

Issue Links

• is related to: HDFS-7180 NFSv3 gateway frequently gets stuck due to GC