yes, something different from that. To my knowledge, DistributedCache is only for Mapreduce.
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Prashant Kommireddi <[email protected]>wrote: > You mean something different from the DistributedCache? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 14, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Rita <[email protected]> wrote: > > > After reading this article, > > http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2012/01/caching-in-hbase-slabcache/ , I was > > wondering if there was a filesystem cache for hdfs. For example, if a > large > > file (10gigabytes) was keep getting accessed on the cluster instead of > keep > > getting it from the network why not storage the content of the file > locally > > on the client itself. A use case on the client would be like this: > > > > > > > > <property> > > <name>dfs.client.cachedirectory</name> > > <value>/var/cache/hdfs</value> > > </property> > > > > > > <property> > > <name>dfs.client.cachesize</name> > > <description>in megabytes</description> > > <value>100000</value> > > </property> > > > > > > Any thoughts of a feature like this? > > > > > > -- > > --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.-- > -- --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
