Hi.
> Dhruba at Facebook has a AvatarNode for 0.20: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-976 > > > This approach is interesting, is it used in production anywhere? There are 2 downsides I can see: 1) It's not automatic, but I guess such behavior can be scripted. 2) It requires an external filer, which again will be SPOF. Perhaps the standby node can be used as filer, thus eliminating any external dependency. Any comments? Regards.
