Hi Dennis, There were some discussions on this topic earlier:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3799 Do you have any specific use-case for this feature? thanks, dhruba On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Owen O'Malley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Mahadev Konar wrote: > > Hi Dennis, >> I don't think that is possible to do. >> > > No, it is not possible. > > The block placement is determined >> by HDFS internally (which is local, rack local and off rack). >> > > Actually, it was changed in 0.17 or so to be node-local, off-rack, and a > second node off rack. > > -- Owen >
