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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-1463: -------------------------------------- 'df' is very cheap so calculating at every heart beat not bad either. > Shall we enforce that only one of them is non-zero? Not necessary depending on calculation of 'remaining space' 'reserved space' in your equations above. How are those calculated? According requirements of this jira, this is what I understand the calculation of available space for datanode is: {noformat} remainig space for Datanode = Min( (dfs.datanode.du.pct * Total_Capacity - cur_space_used_by_Datanode), cur_disk_available) - dfs.datanode.du.reserved {noformat} cur_disk_available (and total capacity) comes from 'df' and cur_space_used_by_Datanode is based on 'du'. The descriptions of these config variables should probably change. > dfs should report total size of all the space that dfs is using > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-1463 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1463 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: dfs > Affects Versions: 0.12.3 > Reporter: Hairong Kuang > Assignee: Hairong Kuang > Fix For: 0.14.0 > > > Currently namenode reports two statistics back to the client: > 1. The total capacity of dfs. This is a sum of all datanode's capacities, > each of which is calculated by datanode summing all data directories disk > space. > 2. The total remaining space of dfs. This is a sum of all datanodes's > remaining space. Each datanode's remaining space is calculated by using the > following formula: remaining space = unused space - > capacity*unusableDiskPercentage - reserved space. So the remaining space > shows how much space that the dfs can still use, but it does not show the > size of unused space. > Each dfs client caculates the total dfs used space by substracting remaining > space from the total capacity. So the used space does not accurately shows > the space that dfs is using. However it is a very important number that dfs > should provide. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.