I am +1 on this. I have been meaning to do this. We can discuss the details on Jira.
Sent from phone On Mar 23, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Eli Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey gang, > > I filed HDFS-3137 so that the 0.23 releases would only support > upgrades from Hadoop version 0.18 or later. People on versions before > 0.18 (don't think there are many, if any, people running these) would > have to upgrade to a version like 1.0 and then upgrade again from > there if they wanted to move to 0.23. I think that should be fine but > wanted to call it out here, give people an opportunity to chime in on > the jira. > > The motivation is that I'd like to do some HDFS cleanup to enable > another change that would break v0.17 and earlier. > > Thanks, > Eli
