Thanks, I exactly wanted to ask this for our R&D roadmap.

2009/9/23 Aaron Kimball <[email protected]>

> Or maybe more pessimistically, the second "stable" append implementation.
>
> It's not like HADOOP-1700 wasn't intended to work. It was just found not to
> after the fact. Hopefully this reimplementation will succeed. If you're
> running a cluster that contains mission-critical data that cannot tolerate
> corruption or loss, you shouldn't jump on the new-feature bandwagon until
> it's had time to prove itself in the wild.
>
> But yes, we hope that appends will really-truly work in 0.21.
> Experimental/R&D projects should be able to plan on having a working append
> function in 0.21.
>
> - Aaron
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Stas Oskin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Just to understand the road-map, 0.21 will be the first stable "append"
> > implementation?
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > 2009/9/20 Owen O'Malley <[email protected]>
> >
> > >
> > > On Sep 13, 2009, at 3:08 AM, Stas Oskin wrote:
> > >
> > >  Hi.
> > >>
> > >> Any idea when the "append" functionality is expected?
> > >>
> > >
> > > A working append is a blocker on HDFS 0.21.0.
> > >
> > > The code for append is expected to be complete in a few weeks.
> Meanwhile,
> > > the rest of Common, HDFS, and MapReduce have feature-frozen and need to
> > be
> > > stabilized and all of the critical bugs fixed. I'd expect the first
> > releases
> > > of 0.21.0 in early November.
> > >
> > > -- Owen
> > >
> >
>

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