Liu Shaohui created HDFS-8131:
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             Summary: Implement a space blance block placement policy
                 Key: HDFS-8131
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8131
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Liu Shaohui
            Assignee: Liu Shaohui
            Priority: Minor


The default block placement policy will choose datanodes for new blocks 
randomly, which will result in unbalanced space used percent among datanodes 
after an cluster expansion. The old datanodes always are in high used percent 
of space and new added ones are in low percent.

Through we can used the external balance tool to balance the space used rate, 
it will cost extra network IO and it's not easy to control the balance speed.

An easy solution is to implement an balanced block placement policy which will 
choose low used percent datanodes for new blocks with a little high 
possibility. In a not long term, the used percent of datanodes will trend to be 
balanced.

Suggestions and discussions are welcomed. Thanks



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