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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:48:02 -0500 (EST)
From: "Hairong Kuang (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (HDFS-1526) Dfs client name for a map/reduce task
 should have some randomness
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Hairong Kuang commented on HDFS-1526:
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Which constant string we should choose? null seems not user friendly. How about an empty string or "NONMAPREDUCE"?

> Dfs client name for a map/reduce task should have some randomness
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-1526
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1526
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: hdfs client
>            Reporter: Hairong Kuang
>            Assignee: Hairong Kuang
>             Fix For: 0.23.0
>
>         Attachments: clientName.patch, randClientId1.patch, randClientId2.patch
>
>
> Fsck shows one of the files in our dfs cluster is corrupt.
> /bin/hadoop fsck aFile -files -blocks -locations
> aFile: 4633 bytes, 2 block(s): 
> aFile: CORRUPT block blk_-4597378336099313975
> OK
> 0. blk_-4597378336099313975_2284630101 len=0 repl=3 [...]
> 1. blk_5024052590403223424_2284630107 len=4633 repl=3 [...]Status: CORRUPT
> On disk, these two blocks are of the same size and the same content. It turns out the writer of the file is from a multiple threaded map task. Each thread may write to the same file. One possible interaction of two threads might make this to happen:
> [T1: create aFile] [T2: delete aFile] [T2: create aFile][T1: addBlock 0 to aFile][T2: addBlock1 to aFile]...
> Because T1 and T2 have the same client name, which is the map task id, the above interactions could be done without any lease exception, thus eventually leading to a corrupt file. To solve the problem, a mapreduce task's client name could be formed by its task id followed by a random number.

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