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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-3637: ------------------------------------------ Hi Hairong, Thanks. My current proposal would require that the balancer contact the SnapNode (in additional to the NameNode) to retrieve the list of candidate blocks. Do you think that it will work? > Support for snapshots > --------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-3637 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3637 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: dfs > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: dhruba borthakur > Attachments: Snapshots.pdf, Snapshots.pdf > > > Support HDFS snapshots. It should support creating snapshots without shutting > down the file system. Snapshot creation should be lightweight and a typical > system should be able to support a few thousands concurrent snapshots. There > should be a way to surface (i.e. mount) a few of these snapshots > simultaneously. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.