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paul sutter commented on HADOOP-337: ------------------------------------ If Doug isnt able to talk you out of it, then you must really need it. So give him a chance, but if its OK with him its probably a good thing to do. We'd love to have it, but my intuition is flashing *complexity* when I consider it. Especially with multiple appenders. Of course, you guys probably have a super elegant approach in mind. My last thought: if that "other" elegant distributed replicated block-based filesystem has this feature, its probably valuable. If it doesnt, then its probably superfluous. > DFS files should be appendable > ------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-337 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-337 > Project: Hadoop > Type: New Feature > Components: dfs > Versions: 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.1.1, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.2.1, 0.3.1, 0.3.2 > Environment: all > Reporter: Runping Qi > > Actually two related issues > 1. One should be able to open an existing DFS file, to seek to a position and > truncate the rest, and to append starting at the end (or where trancation > happens) . > 2. One should be able to read the writen data of a DFS file while other is > writing/appending to the file -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
