diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/LowRedundancyBlocks.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/LowRedundancyBlocks.java index d719e937f2e..bad51ecc6c7 100644 --- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/LowRedundancyBlocks.java +++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/blockmanagement/LowRedundancyBlocks.java @@ -246,8 +246,8 @@ class LowRedundancyBlocks implements Iterable { // highest priority return QUEUE_HIGHEST_PRIORITY; } else if ((curReplicas * 3) < expectedReplicas) { - //can only afford one replica loss - //this is considered very insufficiently redundant blocks. + //there is less than a third as many blocks as requested; + //this is considered very under-replicated. return QUEUE_VERY_LOW_REDUNDANCY; } else { //add to the normal queue for insufficiently redundant blocks