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Hairong Kuang commented on HDFS-1094: ------------------------------------- Right, in case of a map/reduce application, multiple mappers are reading the same file simultaneously. Placing the blocks of a file in multiple racks greatly increases the probability of reading from a rack-local node. > Intelligent block placement policy to decrease probability of block loss > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-1094 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1094 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: name-node > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: Rodrigo Schmidt > Attachments: prob.pdf, prob.pdf > > > The current HDFS implementation specifies that the first replica is local and > the other two replicas are on any two random nodes on a random remote rack. > This means that if any three datanodes die together, then there is a > non-trivial probability of losing at least one block in the cluster. This > JIRA is to discuss if there is a better algorithm that can lower probability > of losing a block. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.