Well, there is an (undocumented?) way to get rack-awareness in the Datanode, so you could co-opt this to represent datacenter-awareness. I don't think there is such a rack-awareness ability for the DFSClient or TaskTracker though.
-Michael On 9/6/07 3:10 PM, "Torsten Curdt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Another big question: Has anybody tried using HADOOP / HDFS across >> multiple geographic sites? > > That's actually a biggy I would be very much interested in, too > > cheers > -- > Torsten
