> or you'll need to > extend the FileSystem class to write a client that Hadoop > Core can use.
There is one: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6253 It even exports stripe locations in a way useful for distributing MR task placement, but provides only one host per "block". - Andy > From: Amandeep Khurana <ama...@gmail.com> > I have HBase running over Ceph on a small cluster here at UC > Santa Cruz and am evaluating its performance as compared to > HDFS. You'll see some numbers soon. Theoretically, HBase can > work on any filesystem. It should either have > a posix client that you can mount and HBase can use it as a > raw filesystem (file:///mount/filesystem) or you'll need to > extend the FileSystem class to write a client that Hadoop > Core can use.
