dhruba Borthakur wrote:
Sanjay and I had a discussion on this one earlier. We thought that this would help Namenode robustness.
Is there an issue in Jira for this? If not, should we add one?
We also thought that this was part of Java 6, and we could make this feature optionally configurable.
The was added in Java 1.5. But we're planning to move to 1.6 in 0.16 anyway. So it does not need to be optional. Whenever the heap is greater than, e.g., 90% of max, I think it would be best to not permit the creation of new files, don't you?
Doug
