Provide an option to store fsimage compressed ---------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-1435 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1435 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Improvement Components: name-node Affects Versions: 0.22.0 Reporter: Hairong Kuang Assignee: Hairong Kuang Fix For: 0.22.0 Our HDFS has fsimage as big as 20G bytes. It consumes a lot of network bandwidth when secondary NN uploads a new fsimage to primary NN. If we could store fsimage compressed, the problem could be greatly alleviated. I plan to provide a new configuration hdfs.image.compressed with a default value of false. If it is set to be true, fsimage is stored as compressed. The fsimage will have a new layout with a new field "compressed" in its header, indicating if the namespace is stored compressed or not. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.