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Jingkei Ly commented on HADOOP-3799: ------------------------------------ I have a use case for controlling the replication targets of a block based on filename at file creation time - is it possible to accommodate this in your proposed API? > Design a pluggable interface to place replicas of blocks in HDFS > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-3799 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3799 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: dfs > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: dhruba borthakur > Attachments: BlockPlacementPluggable.txt, BlockPlacementPluggable2.txt > > > The current HDFS code typically places one replica on local rack, the second > replica on remote random rack and the third replica on a random node of that > remote rack. This algorithm is baked in the NameNode's code. It would be nice > to make the block placement algorithm a pluggable interface. This will allow > experimentation of different placement algorithms based on workloads, > availability guarantees and failure models. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.