Which patch are you referring to? There's a whole branch to support sync on 20: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-0.20-append
In this branch dfs.support.append defaults to true (see HDFS-1254), this configuration has been tested by quite a few people. Thanks, Eli On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Ian Holsman <had...@holsman.net> wrote: > Hey guys. > > I was speaking to some people a couple of nights ago, and we came up with an > idea about it (which I'm sure has been mentioned before so apologies > beforehand). > > could we make append a configuration option. either at build or at run time. > > that way we could let alot of the hbase users run off the same codebase and > not have them patch it themselves. > > sure.. we will still have the same testing issues, and debates on if it is > stable or properly tested.. we can put big warning messages in the > documentation on when people should be using it.. but at least they could get > a regular build > and run it. > > so.. the question to the experts.. can the append patch be made into a > configuration option such that if people don't have it enabled it won't > affect them. > > Thanks for listening > > --ian
