branch-2.0.4-alpha/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/JournalManager.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.Storage.FormatConfirmable;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.protocol.NamespaceInfo;

/**
 * A JournalManager is responsible for managing a single place of storing
 * edit logs. It may correspond to multiple files, a backup node, etc.
 * Even when the actual underlying storage is rolled, or failed and restored,
 * each conceptual place of storage corresponds to exactly one instance of
 * this class, which is created when the EditLog is first opened.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Private
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public interface JournalManager extends Closeable, LogsPurgeable,
                                        FormatConfirmable {

  /**
   * Format the underlying storage, removing any previously
   * stored data.
   */
  void format(NamespaceInfo ns) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Begin writing to a new segment of the log stream, which starts at
   * the given transaction ID.
   */
  EditLogOutputStream startLogSegment(long txId) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Mark the log segment that spans from firstTxId to lastTxId
   * as finalized and complete.
   */
  void finalizeLogSegment(long firstTxId, long lastTxId) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Set the amount of memory that this stream should use to buffer edits
   */
  void setOutputBufferCapacity(int size);

  /**
   * Recover segments which have not been finalized.
   */
  void recoverUnfinalizedSegments() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Close the journal manager, freeing any resources it may hold.
   */
  @Override
  void close() throws IOException;
  
  /** 
   * Indicate that a journal is cannot be used to load a certain range of 
   * edits.
   * This exception occurs in the case of a gap in the transactions, or a
   * corrupt edit file.
   */
  public static class CorruptionException extends IOException {
    static final long serialVersionUID = -4687802717006172702L;
    
    public CorruptionException(String reason) {
      super(reason);
    }
  }
}