On 26 October 2012 01:24, Thilee Subramaniam <thi...@quantcast.com> wrote:
> > We have made the changes recommended here, and made available a 'Hadoop > QFS jar' with QFS. This plugin and the QFS libraries will be maintained & > released by the QFS open-source project. > > Please see the download and usage instructions at > https://github.com/quantcast/qfs/wiki/Migration-Guide > > The QFS tarball contains a hadoop-qfs jar each for Hadoop 0.23.4, 1.0.2, > 1.0.4, 1.1.0, and 2.0.2-alpha. Since the interfaces seem similar, I am not > sure if this is an overkill: one each for trunk and branch1 may suffice. > Could you comment on this? > > Java is a lot more forgiving than C/C++; one built against 1.0.4 should suffice for all; if you are being over cautious, branch-1 and trunk should be enough > Also, is there documentation on Apache Hadoop website that describe > available alternatives to HDFS (or how to add an alternative file system > to Hadoop)? Please let us know. > > If there isn't something on wiki.apache.org/hadoop there should be: create a login there, then email back your username and you can have the editor rights to put something up -I'd suggest a page on "Alternate Filesystems" -steve
