HDFS-12976. [SBN read] Introduce ObserverReadProxyProvider. Contributed by Chao Sun.

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java

@@ -448,4 +448,9 @@ public void close() throws IOException {
   public ConnectionId getConnectionId() {
     return RPC.getConnectionIdForProxy(proxyDescriptor.getProxy());
   }
+
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  public FailoverProxyProvider<T> getProxyProvider() {
+    return proxyDescriptor.fpp;
+  }
 }

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/ClientGSIContext.java

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
  */
 @InterfaceAudience.Private
 @InterfaceStability.Stable
-class ClientGSIContext implements AlignmentContext {
+public class ClientGSIContext implements AlignmentContext {
 
   private final LongAccumulator lastSeenStateId =
       new LongAccumulator(Math::max, Long.MIN_VALUE);

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/ObserverReadProxyProvider.java

@@ -0,0 +1,273 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * <p>
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * <p>
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.ha;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsAction;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.ClientGSIContext;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.NameNodeProxiesClient;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.client.HdfsClientConfigKeys;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.ClientProtocol;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.LocatedBlock;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.AlignmentContext;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.StandbyException;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.FailoverProxyProvider} implementation
+ * that supports reading from observer namenode(s).
+ *
+ * This constructs a wrapper proxy that sends the request to observer
+ * namenode(s), if observer read is enabled. In case there are multiple
+ * observer namenodes, it will try them one by one in case the RPC failed. It
+ * will fail back to the active namenode after it has exhausted all the
+ * observer namenodes.
+ *
+ * Read and write requests will still be sent to active NN if reading from
+ * observer is turned off.
+ */
+public class ObserverReadProxyProvider<T extends ClientProtocol>
+    extends ConfiguredFailoverProxyProvider<T> {
+  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(
+      ObserverReadProxyProvider.class);
+
+  /** Client-side context for syncing with the NameNode server side */
+  private AlignmentContext alignmentContext;
+
+  /** Proxies for the observer namenodes */
+  private final List<AddressRpcProxyPair<T>> observerProxies =
+      new ArrayList<>();
+
+  /**
+   * Whether reading from observer is enabled. If this is false, all read
+   * requests will still go to active NN.
+   */
+  private boolean observerReadEnabled;
+
+  /**
+   * Thread-local index to record the current index in the observer list.
+   */
+  private static final ThreadLocal<Integer> currentIndex =
+      ThreadLocal.withInitial(() -> 0);
+
+  /** The last proxy that has been used. Only used for testing */
+  private volatile ProxyInfo<T> lastProxy = null;
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  public ObserverReadProxyProvider(
+      Configuration conf, URI uri, Class<T> xface, HAProxyFactory<T> factory)
+      throws IOException {
+    super(conf, uri, xface, factory);
+    alignmentContext = new ClientGSIContext();
+    ((ClientHAProxyFactory<T>) factory).setAlignmentContext(alignmentContext);
+
+    // Find out all the observer proxies
+    for (AddressRpcProxyPair<T> ap : this.proxies) {
+      ap.namenode = (T) NameNodeProxiesClient.createProxyWithAlignmentContext(
+          ap.address, conf, ugi, false, getFallbackToSimpleAuth(),
+          alignmentContext);
+      if (isObserverState(ap)) {
+        observerProxies.add(ap);
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (observerProxies.isEmpty()) {
+      throw new RuntimeException("Couldn't find any namenode proxy in " +
+          "OBSERVER state");
+    }
+
+    // Randomize the list to prevent all clients pointing to the same one
+    boolean randomized = conf.getBoolean(
+        HdfsClientConfigKeys.Failover.RANDOM_ORDER,
+        HdfsClientConfigKeys.Failover.RANDOM_ORDER_DEFAULT);
+    if (randomized) {
+      Collections.shuffle(observerProxies);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public synchronized AlignmentContext getAlignmentContext() {
+    return alignmentContext;
+  }
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  @Override
+  public synchronized ProxyInfo<T> getProxy() {
+    // We just create a wrapped proxy containing all the proxies
+    List<ProxyInfo<T>> observerProxies = new ArrayList<>();
+    StringBuilder combinedInfo = new StringBuilder("[");
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < this.observerProxies.size(); i++) {
+      if (i > 0) {
+        combinedInfo.append(",");
+      }
+      AddressRpcProxyPair<T> p = this.observerProxies.get(i);
+      ProxyInfo<T> pInfo = getProxy(p);
+      observerProxies.add(pInfo);
+      combinedInfo.append(pInfo.proxyInfo);
+    }
+
+    combinedInfo.append(']');
+    T wrappedProxy = (T) Proxy.newProxyInstance(
+        ObserverReadInvocationHandler.class.getClassLoader(),
+        new Class<?>[]{xface},
+        new ObserverReadInvocationHandler(observerProxies));
+    return new ProxyInfo<>(wrappedProxy, combinedInfo.toString());
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Check if a method is read-only.
+   *
+   * @return whether the 'method' is a read-only operation.
+   */
+  private boolean isRead(Method method) {
+    return method.isAnnotationPresent(ReadOnly.class);
+  }
+
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  void setObserverReadEnabled(boolean flag) {
+    this.observerReadEnabled = flag;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * After getting exception 'ex', whether we should retry the current request
+   * on a different observer.
+   */
+  private boolean shouldRetry(Exception ex) throws Exception {
+    // TODO: implement retry policy
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  ProxyInfo<T> getLastProxy() {
+    return lastProxy;
+  }
+
+  boolean isObserverState(AddressRpcProxyPair<T> ap) {
+    // TODO: should introduce new ClientProtocol method to verify the
+    // underlying service state, which does not require superuser access
+    // The is a workaround
+    IOException ioe = null;
+    try {
+      // Verify write access first
+      ap.namenode.reportBadBlocks(new LocatedBlock[0]);
+      return false; // Only active NameNode allows write
+    } catch (RemoteException re) {
+      IOException sbe = re.unwrapRemoteException(StandbyException.class);
+      if (!(sbe instanceof StandbyException)) {
+        ioe = re;
+      }
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      ioe = e;
+    }
+    if (ioe != null) {
+      LOG.error("Failed to connect to {}", ap.address, ioe);
+      return false;
+    }
+    // Verify read access
+    // For now we assume only Observer nodes allow reads
+    // Stale reads on StandbyNode should be turned off
+    try {
+      ap.namenode.checkAccess("/", FsAction.READ);
+      return true;
+    } catch (RemoteException re) {
+      IOException sbe = re.unwrapRemoteException(StandbyException.class);
+      if (!(sbe instanceof StandbyException)) {
+        ioe = re;
+      }
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      ioe = e;
+    }
+    if (ioe != null) {
+      LOG.error("Failed to connect to {}", ap.address, ioe);
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+
+
+  class ObserverReadInvocationHandler implements InvocationHandler {
+    final List<ProxyInfo<T>> observerProxies;
+    final ProxyInfo<T> activeProxy;
+
+    ObserverReadInvocationHandler(List<ProxyInfo<T>> observerProxies) {
+      this.observerProxies = observerProxies;
+      this.activeProxy = ObserverReadProxyProvider.super.getProxy();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sends read operations to the observer (if enabled) specified by the
+     * current index, and send write operations to the active. If a observer
+     * fails, we increment the index and retry the next one. If all observers
+     * fail, the request is forwarded to the active.
+     *
+     * Write requests are always forwarded to the active.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Object invoke(Object proxy, final Method method, final Object[] args)
+        throws Throwable {
+      lastProxy = null;
+      Object retVal;
+
+      if (observerReadEnabled && isRead(method)) {
+        // Loop through all the proxies, starting from the current index.
+        for (int i = 0; i < observerProxies.size(); i++) {
+          ProxyInfo<T> current = observerProxies.get(currentIndex.get());
+          try {
+            retVal = method.invoke(current.proxy, args);
+            lastProxy = current;
+            return retVal;
+          } catch (Exception e) {
+            if (!shouldRetry(e)) {
+              throw e;
+            }
+            currentIndex.set((currentIndex.get() + 1) % observerProxies.size());
+            LOG.warn("Invocation returned exception on [{}]",
+                current.proxyInfo, e.getCause());
+          }
+        }
+
+        // If we get here, it means all observers have failed.
+        LOG.warn("All observers have failed for read request {}. " +
+            "Fall back on active: {}", method.getName(), activeProxy);
+      }
+
+      // Either all observers have failed, or that it is a write request.
+      // In either case, we'll forward the request to active NameNode.
+      try {
+        retVal = method.invoke(activeProxy.proxy, args);
+      } catch (Exception e) {
+        throw e.getCause();
+      }
+      lastProxy = activeProxy;
+      return retVal;
+    }
+  }
+}

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java

@@ -2646,6 +2646,12 @@ public void transitionToStandby(int nnIndex) throws IOException,
     getNameNode(nnIndex).getRpcServer().transitionToStandby(
         new StateChangeRequestInfo(RequestSource.REQUEST_BY_USER_FORCED));
   }
+
+  public void transitionToObserver(int nnIndex) throws IOException,
+      ServiceFailedException {
+    getNameNode(nnIndex).getRpcServer().transitionToObserver(
+        new StateChangeRequestInfo(RequestSource.REQUEST_BY_USER_FORCED));
+  }
   
   
   public void triggerBlockReports()

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestStateAlignmentContextWithHA.java

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ public AlignmentContextProxyProvider(
       // Create and set AlignmentContext in HAProxyFactory.
       // All proxies by factory will now have AlignmentContext assigned.
       this.alignmentContext = (spy != null ? spy : new ClientGSIContext());
-      ((ClientHAProxyFactory) factory).setAlignmentContext(alignmentContext);
+      ((ClientHAProxyFactory<T>) factory).setAlignmentContext(alignmentContext);
 
       AC_LIST.add(alignmentContext);
     }

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/HATestUtil.java

@@ -159,6 +159,18 @@ public static DistributedFileSystem configureFailoverFs(
     return (DistributedFileSystem)fs;
   }
   
+  public static DistributedFileSystem configureObserverReadFs(
+      MiniDFSCluster cluster, Configuration conf,
+      int nsIndex) throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+    conf = new Configuration(conf);
+    String logicalName = getLogicalHostname(cluster);
+    setFailoverConfigurations(cluster, conf, logicalName, nsIndex);
+    conf.set(HdfsClientConfigKeys.Failover.PROXY_PROVIDER_KEY_PREFIX + "." +
+        logicalName, ObserverReadProxyProvider.class.getName());
+    FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(new URI("hdfs://" + logicalName), conf);
+    return (DistributedFileSystem) fs;
+  }
+
   public static void setFailoverConfigurations(MiniDFSCluster cluster,
       Configuration conf) {
     setFailoverConfigurations(cluster, conf, getLogicalHostname(cluster));

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/TestObserverNode.java

@@ -0,0 +1,337 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * <p>
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * <p>
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.ha;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.qjournal.MiniQJMHACluster;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.FailoverProxyProvider;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
+import java.net.URI;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
+
+// Main unit tests for ObserverNode
+public class TestObserverNode {
+  private Configuration conf;
+  private MiniQJMHACluster qjmhaCluster;
+  private MiniDFSCluster dfsCluster;
+  private NameNode[] namenodes;
+  private Path testPath;
+  private Path testPath2;
+  private Path testPath3;
+
+  /** These are set in each individual test case */
+  private DistributedFileSystem dfs;
+  private ObserverReadProxyProvider<?> provider;
+
+  @Before
+  public void setUp() throws Exception {
+    conf = new Configuration();
+    setUpCluster(1);
+
+    testPath = new Path("/test");
+    testPath2 = new Path("/test2");
+    testPath3 = new Path("/test3");
+  }
+
+  @After
+  public void cleanUp() throws IOException {
+    if (qjmhaCluster != null) {
+      qjmhaCluster.shutdown();
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSimpleRead() throws Exception {
+    setObserverRead(true);
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    assertSentTo(0);
+
+    try {
+      dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+      fail("Should throw FileNotFoundException");
+    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
+      // Pass
+    }
+
+    rollEditLogAndTail(0);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(2);
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath2, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    assertSentTo(0);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testFailover() throws Exception {
+    setObserverRead(false);
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    assertSentTo(0);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(0);
+
+    dfsCluster.transitionToStandby(0);
+    dfsCluster.transitionToActive(1);
+    dfsCluster.waitActive();
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath2, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    assertSentTo(1);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(1);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testDoubleFailover() throws Exception {
+    setObserverRead(true);
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    assertSentTo(0);
+
+    rollEditLogAndTail(0);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(2);
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath2, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    assertSentTo(0);
+
+    dfsCluster.transitionToStandby(0);
+    dfsCluster.transitionToActive(1);
+    dfsCluster.waitActive(1);
+
+    rollEditLogAndTail(1);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath2);
+    assertSentTo(2);
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath3, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    assertSentTo(1);
+
+    dfsCluster.transitionToStandby(1);
+    dfsCluster.transitionToActive(0);
+    dfsCluster.waitActive(0);
+
+    rollEditLogAndTail(0);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath3);
+    assertSentTo(2);
+    dfs.delete(testPath3, false);
+    assertSentTo(0);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testObserverFailover() throws Exception {
+    setUpCluster(2);
+    setObserverRead(true);
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    rollEditLogAndTail(0);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentToAny(2, 3);
+
+    // Transition observer #2 to standby, request should go to the #3.
+    dfsCluster.transitionToStandby(2);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(3);
+
+    // Transition observer #3 to standby, request should go to active
+    dfsCluster.transitionToStandby(3);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(0);
+
+    // Transition #2 back to observer, request should go to #2
+    dfsCluster.transitionToObserver(2);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(2);
+
+    // Transition #3 back to observer, request should go to either #2 or #3
+    dfsCluster.transitionToObserver(3);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentToAny(2, 3);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testObserverShutdown() throws Exception {
+    setObserverRead(true);
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    rollEditLogAndTail(0);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(2);
+
+    // Shutdown the observer - requests should go to active
+    dfsCluster.shutdownNameNode(2);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(0);
+
+    // Start the observer again - requests should go to observer
+    dfsCluster.restartNameNode(2);
+    dfsCluster.transitionToObserver(2);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(2);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testObserverFailOverAndShutdown() throws Exception {
+    // Test the case when there is a failover before ONN shutdown
+    setObserverRead(true);
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    rollEditLogAndTail(0);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(2);
+
+    dfsCluster.transitionToStandby(0);
+    dfsCluster.transitionToActive(1);
+    dfsCluster.waitActive();
+
+    // Shutdown the observer - requests should go to active
+    dfsCluster.shutdownNameNode(2);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(1);
+
+    // Start the observer again - requests should go to observer
+    dfsCluster.restartNameNode(2);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(1);
+
+    dfsCluster.transitionToObserver(2);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(2);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testMultiObserver() throws Exception {
+    setUpCluster(2);
+    setObserverRead(true);
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    assertSentTo(0);
+
+    rollEditLogAndTail(0);
+    dfs.getFileStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentToAny(2, 3);
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath2, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    rollEditLogAndTail(0);
+
+    // Shutdown first observer, request should go to the second one
+    dfsCluster.shutdownNameNode(2);
+    dfs.listStatus(testPath2);
+    assertSentTo(3);
+
+    // Restart the first observer
+    dfsCluster.restartNameNode(2);
+    dfs.listStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentTo(3);
+
+    dfsCluster.transitionToObserver(2);
+    dfs.listStatus(testPath);
+    assertSentToAny(2, 3);
+
+    dfs.mkdir(testPath3, FsPermission.getDefault());
+    rollEditLogAndTail(0);
+
+    // Now shutdown the second observer, request should go to the first one
+    dfsCluster.shutdownNameNode(3);
+    dfs.listStatus(testPath3);
+    assertSentTo(2);
+
+    // Shutdown both, request should go to active
+    dfsCluster.shutdownNameNode(2);
+    dfs.listStatus(testPath3);
+    assertSentTo(0);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testBootstrap() throws Exception {
+    for (URI u : dfsCluster.getNameDirs(2)) {
+      File dir = new File(u.getPath());
+      assertTrue(FileUtil.fullyDelete(dir));
+    }
+    int rc = BootstrapStandby.run(
+        new String[]{"-nonInteractive"},
+        dfsCluster.getConfiguration(2)
+    );
+    assertEquals(0, rc);
+  }
+
+  private void setUpCluster(int numObservers) throws Exception {
+    qjmhaCluster = new MiniQJMHACluster.Builder(conf)
+        .setNumNameNodes(2 + numObservers)
+        .build();
+    dfsCluster = qjmhaCluster.getDfsCluster();
+
+    namenodes = new NameNode[2 + numObservers];
+    for (int i = 0; i < namenodes.length; i++) {
+      namenodes[i] = dfsCluster.getNameNode(i);
+    }
+
+    dfsCluster.transitionToActive(0);
+    dfsCluster.waitActive(0);
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < numObservers; i++) {
+      dfsCluster.transitionToObserver(2 + i);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private void assertSentTo(int nnIdx) {
+    assertSentToAny(nnIdx);
+  }
+
+  private void assertSentToAny(int... nnIndices) {
+    FailoverProxyProvider.ProxyInfo<?> pi = provider.getLastProxy();
+    for (int nnIdx : nnIndices) {
+      if (pi.proxyInfo.equals(
+          dfsCluster.getNameNode(nnIdx).getNameNodeAddress().toString())) {
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+    fail("Request was not sent to any of the expected namenodes");
+  }
+
+  private void setObserverRead(boolean flag) throws Exception {
+    dfs = HATestUtil.configureObserverReadFs(dfsCluster, conf, 0);
+    RetryInvocationHandler<?> handler =
+        (RetryInvocationHandler<?>) Proxy.getInvocationHandler(
+            dfs.getClient().getNamenode());
+    provider = (ObserverReadProxyProvider<?>) handler.getProxyProvider();
+    provider.setObserverReadEnabled(flag);
+  }
+
+  private void rollEditLogAndTail(int indexForActiveNN) throws Exception {
+    dfsCluster.getNameNode(indexForActiveNN).getRpcServer().rollEditLog();
+    for (int i = 2; i < namenodes.length; i++) {
+      dfsCluster.getNameNode(i).getNamesystem().getEditLogTailer()
+          .doTailEdits();
+    }
+  }
+}