I hate to point this out, but losing *any* data node will decrease the replication of some blocks.
On 3/24/08 4:53 PM, "lohit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Improves performance on the basis that files are copied locally in >> that node, so there is no need network transmission. But isn't that >> policy more weak? If that node crashes ( he worst case), you loses 1 >> redundancy level. > This policy was for better write performance. As you mentioned, yes in your > case you have only 2 copies and it increases the probability of losing > replicas. There has been discussion about having different policy for > different files, but hasn't been implemented yet.
