+1. BackupNode also brings extra work for the recent https/http policy
work, since we need to make sure the checkpoint works for all the
policy/security combinations. We should deprecate it if no one is
using it.

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Suresh Srinivas <sur...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
> It is almost an year a jira proposed deprecating backup node -
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4114.
>
> Maintaining it adds unnecessary work. As an example, when I added support
> for retry cache there were bunch of code paths related to backup node that
> added unnecessary work. I do not know of anyone who is using this.
>
> If there are no objections, I want to deprecate that code in 2.3 release
> and remove it from trunk. I will start this work next week.
>
> Regards,
>
> Suresh
>
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