[MAPREDUCE-2049] JT and TT should prune invalid local dirs on startup

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.21.0, 0.22.0
• Component/s: jobtracker, tasktracker
• Assignee: Zheng Shao
• Reporter: Eli Collins
• Created: 02/Sep/10 04:54
• Updated: 09/May/15 01:07
• Resolved: 09/May/15 01:07

Description

MRAsyncDiskService fails when it's given local dirs it can't create or write. Per MAPREDUCE-1213 this conflicts with the previous behavior. The TTs will no longer start on hosts where the config has localdirs that can not be created (ie if some hosts don't have the same local mounts).

The TT and JT should prune out invalid local dirs (ones that fail checkLocalDirs ie that it can not create) before giving them to MRAsyncDiskService and using them otherwise.

Also mapred-default.xml states that mapred.local.dir that do not exist are ignored, this should be updated as directories that don't exist are created (if possible), they're only ignored if they can not be created.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MAPREDUCE-1382 MRAsyncDiscService should tolerate missing local.dir
• is related to: MAPREDUCE-1213 TaskTrackers restart is very slow because it deletes distributed cache directory synchronously