Do we need to verify checksum after we move files to Hadoop (HDFS) from a Linux server through a Webhdfs ?
I would like to make sure the files on the HDFS have no corruption after they are copied. But is checking checksum necessary?
I read client does checksum before data is written to HDFS
Can somebody help me to understand how can I make sure that source file on Linux system is same as ingested file on Hdfs using webhdfs.
If your goal is to compare two files residing on HDFS, I would not use "hdfs dfs -checksum URI" as in my case it generates different checksums for files with identical content.
In the below example I am comparing two files with the same content in different locations:
Old-school md5sum method returns the same checksum:
$ hdfs dfs -cat /project1/file.txt | md5sum
b9fdea463b1ce46fabc2958fc5f7644a -
$ hdfs dfs -cat /project2/file.txt | md5sum
b9fdea463b1ce46fabc2958fc5f7644a -
However, checksum generated on the HDFS is different for files with the same content:
$ hdfs dfs -checksum /project1/file.txt
0000020000000000000000003e50be59553b2ddaf401c575f8df6914
$ hdfs dfs -checksum /project2/file.txt
0000020000000000000000001952d653ccba138f0c4cd4209fbf8e2e
A bit puzzling as I would expect identical checksum to be generated against the identical content.
Checksum for a file can be calculated using hadoop fs command.
Usage: hadoop fs -checksum URI
Returns the checksum information of a file.
Example:
hadoop fs -checksum hdfs://nn1.example.com/file1
hadoop fs -checksum file:///path/in/linux/file1
Refer : Hadoop documentation for more details
So if you want to comapre file1 in both linux and hdfs you can use above utility.
I wrote a library with which you can calculate the checksum of local file, just the way hadoop does it on hdfs files.
So, you can compare the checksum to cross check.
https://github.com/srch07/HDFSChecksumForLocalfile
If you are doing this check via API
import org.apache.hadoop.fs._
import org.apache.hadoop.io._
Option 1: for the value b9fdea463b1ce46fabc2958fc5f7644a
val md5:String = MD5Hash.digest(FileSystem.get(hadoopConfiguration).open(new Path("/project1/file.txt"))).toString
Option 2: for the value 3e50be59553b2ddaf401c575f8df6914
val md5:String = FileSystem.get(hadoopConfiguration).getFileChecksum(new Path("/project1/file.txt"))).toString.split(":")(0)
It does crc check. For each and everyfile it create .crc to make sure there is no corruption.
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I'm running into an issue using distcp to copy files - every copy fails with an IO Exception (Checksum mismatch), even if performing a simple copy within the cluster (i.e. hadoop distcp -pbugctrx /foo/bar /foo/baz).
If forced to complete the copy using -skipcrccheck, I can see that the checksum is different ( hdfs dfs -checksum ), but that this isn't being caused by a difference in the actual source data (hdfs dfs -cat | md5sum returns matching checksums for source and destination).
I'm leery of disabling a data integrity check if I don't need to. Is there a better way to address this failing check than just ignoring it.
Both the source and target may be in different encryption zones. In that case also the checksum will fail
In a cluster of hdfs, i receive multiple files on a daily basis which can be of 3 types :
1) product_info_timestamp
2) user_info_timestamp
3) user_activity_timestamp
The number of files received can be of any number but they will belong to one of these 3 categories only.
I want to merge all the files(after checking whether they are less than 100mb) belonging to one category into a single file.
for eg: 3 files named product_info_* should be merged into one file named product_info.
How do i achieve this?
You can use getmerge toachieve this, but the result will be stored in your local node (edge node), so you need to be sure you have enough space there.
hadoop fs -getmerge /hdfs_path/product_info_* /local_path/product_inf
You can move them back to hdfs with put
hadoop fs -put /local_path/product_inf /hdfs_path
You can use hadoop archive (.har file) or sequence file. It is very simple to use - just google "hadoop archive" or "sequence file".
Another set of commands along the similar lines as suggested by #SCouto
hdfs dfs -cat /hdfs_path/product_info_* > /local_path/product_info_combined.txt
hdfs dfs -put /local_path/product_info_combined.txt /hdfs_path/
I have the multiple text files.
The total size of them exceeds the largest disk size available to me (~1.5TB)
A spark program reads a single input text file from HDFS. So I need to combine those files into one. (I cannot re-write the program code. I am given only the *.jar file for execution)
Does HDFS have such a capability? How can I achieve this?
What I understood from your question is you want to Concatenate multiple files into one. Here is a solution which might not be the most efficient way of doing it but it works. suppose you have two files: file1 and file2 and you want to get a combined file as ConcatenatedFile
.Here is the script for that.
hadoop fs -cat /hadoop/path/to/file/file1.txt /hadoop/path/to/file/file2.txt | hadoop fs -put - /hadoop/path/to/file/Concatenate_file_Folder/ConcatenateFile.txt
Hope this helps.
HDFS by itself does not provide such capabilities. All out-of-the-box features (like hdfs dfs -text * with pipes or FileUtil's copy methods) use your client server to transfer all data.
In my experience we always used our own written MapReduce jobs to merge many small files in HDFS in distributed way.
So you have two solutions:
Write your own simple MapReduce/Spark job to combine text files with
your format.
Find already implemented solution for such kind of
purposes.
About solution #2: there is the simple project FileCrush for combining text or sequence files in HDFS. It might be suitable for you, check it.
Example of usage:
hadoop jar filecrush-2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar crush.Crush -Ddfs.block.size=134217728 \
--input-format=text \
--output-format=text \
--compress=none \
/input/dir /output/dir 20161228161647
I had a problem to run it without these options (especially -Ddfs.block.size and output file date prefix 20161228161647) so make sure you run it properly.
You can do a pig job:
A = LOAD '/path/to/inputFiles' as (SCHEMA);
STORE A into '/path/to/outputFile';
Doing a hdfs cat and then putting it back to hdfs means, all this data is processed in the client node and will degradate your network
I'm using webhdfs to ingest data from Local file system to HDFS. Now I want to ensure integrity of files ingested into HDFS.
How can I make sure transferred files are not corrrupted/altered etc?
I used below webhdfs command to get the checksum of file
curl -i -L --negotiate -u: -X GET "http://$hostname:$port/webhdfs/v1/user/path?op=GETFILECHECKSUM"
How should I use above checksum to ensure the integrity of Ingested files? please suggest
Below is the steps I'm following
>md5sum locale_file
740c461879b484f4f5960aa4f67a145b
>hadoop fs -checksum locale_file
locale_file MD5-of-0MD5-of-512CRC32C 000002000000000000000000f4ec0c298cd6196ffdd8148ae536c9fe
Checksum of file on local system is different than same file on HDFS I need to compare checksum how can I do that?
One way to do that will be to calculate the checksum locally and than match it against the hadoop checksum after you ingest it.
I wrote a library to calculate check sum locally for it, in case any body is interested.
https://github.com/srch07/HDFSChecksumForLocalfile
Try this
curl -i "http://<HOST>:<PORT>/webhdfs/v1/<PATH>?op=GETFILECHECKSUM"
Refer follow link for full information
https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.6.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/WebHDFS.html#Get_File_Checksum
It can be done from the console like below
$ md5sum locale_file
740c461879b484f4f5960aa4f67a145b
$ hadoop fs -cat locale_file |md5sum -
740c461879b484f4f5960aa4f67a145b -
You can also verify local file via code
import java.io._
import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils;
val md5sum = DigestUtils.md5Hex("locale_file")
and for the Hadoop
import org.apache.hadoop.fs._
import org.apache.hadoop.io._
val md5sum = MD5Hash.digest(FileSystem.get(hadoopConfiguration).open(new Path("locale_file"))).toString
I'm using following simple code to upload files to hdfs.
FileSystem hdfs = FileSystem.get(config);
hdfs.copyFromLocalFile(src, dst);
The files are generated by webserver java component and rotated and closed by logback in .gz format. I've noticed that sometimes the .gz file is corrupted.
> gunzip logfile.log_2013_02_20_07.close.gz
gzip: logfile.log_2013_02_20_07.close.gz: unexpected end of file
But the following command does show me the content of the file
> hadoop fs -text /input/2013/02/20/logfile.log_2013_02_20_07.close.gz
The impact of having such files is quite disaster - since the aggregation for the whole day fails, and also several slave nodes is marked as blacklisted in such case.
What can I do in such case?
Can hadoop copyFromLocalFile() utility corrupt the file?
Does anyone met similar problem ?
It shouldn't do - this error is normally associated with GZip files which haven't been closed out when originally written to local disk, or are being copied to HDFS before they have finished being written to.
You should be able to check by running an md5sum on the original file and that in HDFS - if they match then the original file is corrupt:
hadoop fs -cat /input/2013/02/20/logfile.log_2013_02_20_07.close.gz | md5sum
md5sum /path/to/local/logfile.log_2013_02_20_07.close.gz
If they don't match they check the timestamps on the two files - the one in HDFS should be modified after the local file system one.