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Arun C Murthy commented on HADOOP-2559:
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I have to place all the blame for this one on Owen's head... *smile*

+1 

I think it's a good compromise too.

> DFS should place one replica per rack
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-2559
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2559
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: dfs
>            Reporter: Runping Qi
>            Assignee: lohit vijayarenu
>
> Currently, when writing out a block, dfs will place one copy to a local data 
> node, one copy to a rack local node
> and another one to a remote node. This leads to a number of undesired 
> properties:
> 1. The block will be rack-local to two tacks instead of three, reducing the 
> advantage of rack locality based scheduling by 1/3.
> 2. The Blocks of a file (especiallya  large file) are unevenly distributed 
> over the nodes: One third will be on the local node, and two thirds on the 
> nodes on the same rack. This may make some nodes full much faster than 
> others, 
> increasing the need of rebalancing. Furthermore, this also make some nodes 
> become "hot spots" if those big 
> files are popular and accessed by many applications.

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