When geode was donated to apache, there was a partially completed integration with HDFS built in. See GEODE-10.
Since that initial donation, we have removed the APIs related to creating HDFS regions because they were not yet stable. See GEODE-429. The problem is that we still have HDFS related code sprinkled throughout geode-core. This causes us to pull in a bunch of compile dependencies on hbase and hadoop. I already created an issue, GEODE-1072, to move the HDFS code it it's own subproject, but that will take a lot of work. In the mean time, I propose we go ahead and create a separate branch for the HDFS related changes and remove the HDFS related code from develop. The work to refactor the HDFS integration to be a subproject can take place on that branch and geode-core on develop will be cleaner in the mean time. What do you folks think? -Dan
