The radical approach was from zookeeper dev team :). Mostly the discussion around using zookeeper is to be able to mount different namespaces on a single tree.
Mahadev > -----Original Message----- > From: Sangmin Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:44 PM > To: core-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: Re: porting HDFS to Zookeeper?? > > Was that from HDFS developers? and could you let me know how serious that > plans was? > Thanks, > > -sangmin > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sangmin Lee wrote: > > > >> I heard that there was a plans to porting HDFS to Zookeeper to get a > high > >> availability. > >> Is this true? > >> If so, could anyone let me know about the status of this effort? > >> > > > > I have heard folks talk of this, but have heard of no concrete plans > yet. > > The radical approach would be to replace the namenode entirely with > > Zookeeper. > > > > Doug > > > >
