+1 - Lohit
-----Original Message----- From: Owen O'Malley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 5/9/2008 11:44 AM To: core-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Proposal to add Zookeeper as a new Hadoop subproject I'd like to propose Zookeeper, which is a distributed coordination service, roughly similar to Google's Chubby, as a new Hadoop subproject. I think Zookeeper would be a great basis for both Map/ Reduce and HDFS high availability. The current version at http:// zookeeper.sourceforge.net/ was developed by Yahoo!, which will provide a software grant to Apache. -- Owen