Re: datanode ack behavior for block receive

2009-11-04 Thread B. X.
om: Dhruba Borthakur To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:31:03 -0800 Subject: Re: datanode ack behavior for block receive Hi Bin, I think that your observation is correct. The act of sending a SUCCESS status ack can be avoided by intelligently looking at the seqno. However, my

Re: datanode ack behavior for block receive

2009-11-02 Thread Dhruba Borthakur
Hi Bin, I think that your observation is correct. The act of sending a SUCCESS status ack can be avoided by intelligently looking at the seqno. However, my opinion is that returning the extra bit of information is not impacting performance/correctness at all, do you agree? thank, dhruba On Mo

datanode ack behavior for block receive

2009-11-02 Thread B. X.
Hi All, I observed that there are two kinds of ack'ing going on when a datanode receives a data block packet: 1. ack by sending the sequence number of the received block to upstream datanode; 2. also send operation status (e.g. SUCCESS, ERROR); The seqno is chained, that is, a node will not a