Thank you Eli. I have just uploaded the patch for branch-1 to JIRA. I'll do the same for trunk soon.
If you have any comments or questions on the patch please let me know. Thanks, - Thilee On 10/5/12 10:32 AM, "Eli Collins" <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: >Hey Thilee, > >Thanks for contributing. We don't process pull request on the git >mirrors, please upload a patch against trunk and branch-1 if you'd >like this included in Hadoop 1.x and 2.x releases. More info here: >http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute > >Thanks, >Eli > >On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Thilee Subramaniam ><thi...@quantcast.com> wrote: >> We at Quantcast have released QFS 1.0 (Quantcast File System) to open >> source. This is based on the KFS 0.5 (Kosmos Distributed File System), >> a C++ distributed filesystem implementation. KFS plugs into Apache >> Hadoop via the 'kfs' shim that is part of Hadoop codebase. >> >> QFS has added support for permissions, and also, provides fault >>tolerance >> through Reed-Solomon encoding as well as replication. There are also a >> number of performance and stability improvements, including a rewrite of >> the client library to allow parallel concurrent I/Os. Going forward, new >> releases of KFS will come from QFS. >> >> The open source release of QFS is at http://quantcast.github.com/qfs >> >> QFS plugs into Apache Hadoop the same way KFS does. Currently, one would >> apply the patches or JARs from the QFS source tree onto Apache Hadoop to >> make Hadoop use QFS. The patch for Apache Hadoop 1.0.X can be found at >> https://github.com/quantcast/qfs/blob/master/hadoop/hadoop-1.0.X.patch >> >> In order to make the integration seamless, we would like to add a 'qfs' >> shim to Apache Hadoop so that the current active branches (1.0.X, 2.X.X, >> 0.23.X) of Apache Hadoop can use QFS. >> >> Towards this, I've submited an ASF JIRA feature ticket (HADOOP-8885) >>under >> hadoop-common project, and send a pull request with the QFS shim changes >> to https://github.com/apache/hadoop-common/tree/branch-1.0.2 >> >> I will subsequently submit pull requests to the other active Hadoop >> branches. >> >> If you have any question, I will be happy yo answer or provide more >> details on QFS. >> >> - Thilee >>
