hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/common/StorageErrorReporter.java

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

import java.io.File;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.JournalManager;

/**
 * Interface which implementations of {@link JournalManager} can use to report
 * errors on underlying storage directories. This avoids a circular dependency
 * between journal managers and the storage which instantiates them.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public interface StorageErrorReporter {

  /**
   * Indicate that some error occurred on the given file.
   * 
   * @param f the file which had an error.
   */
  public void reportErrorOnFile(File f);
}