Jeff, Great to see this effort going. As you stated, the first part would be to start with bare bones level (no HDFS). Waiting to see more on this.
thanks mahadev On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Jeff Vance <[email protected]> wrote: > A team at Red Hat is looking to expand the filesystem choices supported in > Ambari to include other Hadoop Compatible File Systems (HCFS), including Red > Hat's filesystem based on GlusterFS. > > We'd like to start a discussion on how to architect this capability in a way > that fits in with existing Ambari service configurations, is expandable, > supports differences among the various Hadoop compatible file systems, and is > compatible with existing Ambari deployments. > > There could be different levels of Hadoop Compatible File System "support". > For example, a bare-bones level could be that Ambari does not require HDFS to > be running and does not interfere with the HCFS service. The next level could > be that Ambari provides some monitoring and statistics for the HCFS. A higher > level could be that Ambari can deploy the HCFS, etc. > > We have opened JIRA AMBARI-1817 as an umbrella JIRA for HCFS support in > Ambari. We welcome community input. > > Thanks, > Red Hat Big Data Team
