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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:43:47 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Todd Lipcon (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HDFS-2026) 1073: 2NN needs to handle case of
 reformatted NN better
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Todd Lipcon commented on HDFS-2026:
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I should note that the patch does *not* add a "-format" command to the 2NN yet. I'll do that separately to keep this an easy review.

> 1073: 2NN needs to handle case of reformatted NN better
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-2026
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2026
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: name-node
>    Affects Versions: Edit log branch (HDFS-1073)
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>            Assignee: Todd Lipcon
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: Edit log branch (HDFS-1073)
>
>         Attachments: hdfs-2026.txt
>
>
> Currently in the 1073 branch, the following steps ends up with a very confused 2NN:
> - format NN, run NN
> - start 2NN, perform some checkpoints
> - reformat NN, start NN on new namespace
> - restart same 2NN
> The 2NN currently saves the new VERSION info into its local storage directory but doesn't clear out the old checkpoint or edits files. This is obviously wrong and might lead to a corrupt checkpoint getting uploaded. 
> If the 2NN has storage directories with VERSION info, and connects to an NN with different VERSION info, there are two alternatives:
> a) refuse to perform any checkpoints until the operator issues a "secondarynamenode -format" command (this is similar to how the backupnode/checkpointnode works)
> b) clear the current contents of the storage directory and save the new NN's VERSION info.

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