Reading of the previously synced data will fail if the last block got corrupted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-1944 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1944 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: data-node, hdfs client, name-node Affects Versions: 0.20-append Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G For example a file can comprise 5 blcoks . In that we have written 4.5 blocks and invoked sync. Reading of this 4.5 blocks will be successful at this point of time. Now when writing the remaining 0.5 block write has failed due to checksum errors, Then the reading of the previously synced 4.5 blocks also fails. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira