Hello kind folks, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in adding a AddBlock Event to the inotify pipeline? We were thinking about using Inotify for hdfs replication to another datacenter.
Right now the problem is with the appends. We get a notification when an append starts with an AppendEvent and then we know the file is complete when we get a CloseEvent. This would increase our latency considerably. So if we could add an AddBlockEvent whenever we get an OP_ADD_BLOCK that would give us the ability to ship blocks. This would basically give us an ExtendedBlock and then we could ask the namenode to give us the corresponding LocatedBlock which we could just get a stream of bytes ready to ship to our destination cluster. Is this something the community would be interested in? Thank you rahul
