Hi Thomas, Thanks for your suggestions, I would take well consideration of them. However, I need coding work for finishing my diploma project. Thus, writing documentation may not be the good choice for me. And my work needs to be related to HDFS. For example, I know random modification of file is not supported, I don't know if this function could be added to HDFS (if it is feasible). If it is feasible, how is the workload? is it hard? could it be finished within 3 months?
I am wondering if someone is already working on random modification or something related to HDFS. And I may need some guidance from the veteran. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > xiaofei du: > > Hi All, > > > > I am a graduate student, I am preparing for my diploma project. I have > > about 3 months to finish the project. I want to do some work on HDFS. > > However, I have no concept what I could do for improving HDFS. So could > you > > guys please give me some suggestions? > > > > I hope the suggested project could be done within 3 months, I cannot > afford > > more time. So the project should not be too hard (at the time, it should > > not be easy, otherwise, I cannot reach the graduation requirement :-) ) > > > > thank you !!! > Hi, > > you could write a developer documentation of the inner workings of HDFS > (+HBASE, +MAPREDUCE?) that could be understood by HDFS users. Additionally > to > the documentation of the current state, you could include: > > - Different strategies to make the NameNode distributed > - The different Approaches to append > - How does Security with Kerberos work? > > One of the challenges of such a work would be to make it as easy as > possible > for developers to understand some part of HDFS they're interested in. > Another challenge is to choose a documentation format and workflow that > would > make it easy to keep this documentation current without much effort. > > A totally other project that I also consider important for Hadoop: Help > Apache > to implement an infrastructure based on GIT. This could help many projects > in > the long run. If you're interested in this, you should subscribe to > infrastructure-...@apache.org and get in contact with Jukka Zitting > <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com>. > > Best regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro > -- Thanks Best wishes， Xiaofei Du（Gregory）
