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Eli Collins commented on HDFS-988:
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ELOS#flush calls ELFOS#flushAndSync which does a force on the underlying file channel.
> saveNamespace can corrupt edits log, apparently due to race conditions
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> Key: HDFS-988
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-988
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: name-node
> Affects Versions: 0.20-append, 0.21.0, 0.22.0
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: Eli Collins
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.20-append, 0.22.0
>
> Attachments: HDFS-988_fix_synchs.patch, hdfs-988-2.patch, hdfs-988-3.patch, hdfs-988-4.patch,
hdfs-988.txt, saveNamespace.txt, saveNamespace_20-append.patch
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> The adminstrator puts the namenode is safemode and then issues the savenamespace command.
This can corrupt the edits log. The problem is that when the NN enters safemode, there could
still be pending logSycs occuring from other threads. Now, the saveNamespace command, when
executed, would save a edits log with partial writes. I have seen this happen on 0.20.
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-909?focusedCommentId=12828853&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12828853
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