Changes for HDFS-1623 branch. This change list will be merged into the trunk CHANGES.txt when the HDFS-1623 branch is merged. ------------------------------ HDFS-2179. Add fencing framework and mechanisms for NameNode HA. (todd) HDFS-1974. Introduce active and standy states to the namenode. (suresh) HDFS-2407. getServerDefaults and getStats don't check operation category (atm) HDFS-1973. HA: HDFS clients must handle namenode failover and switch over to the new active namenode. (atm) HDFS-2301. Start/stop appropriate namenode services when transition to active and standby states. (suresh) HDFS-2231. Configuration changes for HA namenode. (suresh) HDFS-2418. Change ConfiguredFailoverProxyProvider to take advantage of HDFS-2231. (atm) HDFS-2393. Mark appropriate methods of ClientProtocol with the idempotent annotation. (atm) HDFS-2523. Small NN fixes to include HAServiceProtocol and prevent NPE on shutdown. (todd) HDFS-2577. NN fails to start since it tries to start secret manager in safemode. (todd) HDFS-2582. Scope dfs.ha.namenodes config by nameservice (todd) HDFS-2591. MiniDFSCluster support to mix and match federation with HA (todd) HDFS-1975. Support for sharing the namenode state from active to standby. (jitendra, atm, todd) HDFS-1971. Send block report from datanode to both active and standby namenodes. (sanjay, todd via suresh) HDFS-2616. Change DatanodeProtocol#sendHeartbeat() to return HeartbeatResponse. (suresh) HDFS-2622. Fix TestDFSUpgrade in HA branch. (todd) HDFS-2612. Handle refreshNameNodes in federated HA clusters (todd) HDFS-2623. Add test case for hot standby capability (todd) HDFS-2626. BPOfferService.verifyAndSetNamespaceInfo needs to be synchronized (todd) HDFS-2624. ConfiguredFailoverProxyProvider doesn't correctly stop ProtocolTranslators (todd)