Null pointer exception comes when Namenode recovery happens and there is no response from client to NN more than the hardlimit for NN recovery and the current block is more than the prev block size in NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-1951 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1951 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: name-node Affects Versions: 0.20-append Reporter: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan Fix For: 0.20-append Null pointer exception comes when Namenode recovery happens and there is no response from client to NN more than the hardlimit for NN recovery and the current block is more than the prev block size in NN 1. Write using a client to 2 datanodes 2. Kill one data node and allow pipeline recovery. 3. write somemore data to the same block 4. Parallely allow the namenode recovery to happen Null pointer exception will come in addStoreBlock api. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira