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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HADOOP-4764:
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This may become a big patch, as e.g. the new field will require change of the 
image format.
Would it be sufficient to extend implementation of {{setReplication()}} so that 
it recursively changed replication for all files in the directory subtree?

> add replication factor for hdfs directory
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4764
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4764
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: dfs
>            Reporter: Ruyue Ma
>
> If we can set replication factor for directory. we can modify the 
> DFSClent.create() method, pass 0 for the default block replication. Namenode 
> check create request, if blockreplication is 0, it will give its parent dir 
> replication factor to the file blockreplication factor. This will simplify 
> the administration work. You know we can set /Test or /Tmp dir's replication 
> factor 2 or 1, then all their children files and dirs replication factor is 2 
> or 1 defaultly.
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