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Jingkei Ly commented on HADOOP-3799:
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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
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>                 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
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> 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.

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