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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:47:47 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Todd Lipcon (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HDFS-2001) HDFS-1073: Kill previous.checkpoint,
 lastcheckpoint.tmp directories
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Todd Lipcon commented on HDFS-2001:
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I let it loop for a while and it did somewhere around 150,000 distinct checkpoints coming from two NNs (of a very small image). I think this is pretty stable / good to go.

> HDFS-1073: Kill previous.checkpoint, lastcheckpoint.tmp directories
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-2001
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2001
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: name-node
>    Affects Versions: Edit log branch (HDFS-1073)
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>            Assignee: Todd Lipcon
>             Fix For: Edit log branch (HDFS-1073)
>
>         Attachments: hdfs-2001.txt
>
>
> In the old design for edits/image storage, the secondary namenode does a complicated dance of moving "current/" to "lastcheckpoint.tmp", checkpointing into "current/", then moving "lastcheckpoint.tmp" back to "previous.checkpoint". The idea here was so that there would always be one directory with a valid set of storage files.
> In the HDFS-1073 design, this complicated dance isn't necessary. If a checkpoint fails, we can just rm that single fsimage_N.ckpt file and still be left with a valid storage directory.
> So, we can just let the 2NN keep a single current/ dir around for all checkpoints and eliminate the complexity of the dance.

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