Hi all,

I check the source code of EditLogFileOutputStream, it seems hadoop
will first write edit log to buffer, then flush to disk. I know that
it will improve performance, but in the other hand it will cause the
edit log in buffer lost when the name node is down. So I wonder is it
possible and necessary to let users do configuration in the conf file
to decide whether use buffer or not? Thanks.

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Best Regards

Jeff Zhang

Hi Jeff,

All of the FSNamesystem methods call logSync() before returning to the
client. So, if the edit is lost, it also will not have returned a success to
the client.

-Todd

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Jeff Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I check the source code of EditLogFileOutputStream, it seems hadoop
> will first write edit log to buffer, then flush to disk. I know that
> it will improve performance, but in the other hand it will cause the
> edit log in buffer lost when the name node is down. So I wonder is it
> possible and necessary to let users do configuration in the conf file
> to decide whether use buffer or not? Thanks.
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
>
> Jeff Zhang
>

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Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera