https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/hdfs-client-takes-20s-to-failover-to-alternate-namenode/m-p/208693#M170650 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/44349/davidrobison.html" nodeid="44349">@David Robison</A></P><P>What is the value for the following HDFS property "dfs.client.retry.policy.enabled" ?</P><PRE># su - hdfs # hdfs getconf -confKey dfs.client.retry.policy.enabled </PRE><P>.</P><P>DFSClient should ignore <STRONG>dfs.client.retry.policy.enabled</STRONG> for HA proxies to ensure fast failover. Otherwise, dfsclient retries the NN which is no longer active and delays the failover.</P> Fri, 06 Oct 2017 22:56:22 GMT jsensharma 2017-10-06T22:56:22Z