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Vinayakumar B commented on HDFS-3689:
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HDFS-7703 is depend on this for the branch-2 commit. So holding the HDFS-7703
merge to branch-2 until this is in.
> Add support for variable length block
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>
> Key: HDFS-3689
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3689
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: datanode, hdfs-client, namenode
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
> Assignee: Jing Zhao
> Fix For: 3.0.0
>
> Attachments: HDFS-3689.000.patch, HDFS-3689.001.patch,
> HDFS-3689.002.patch, HDFS-3689.003.patch, HDFS-3689.003.patch,
> HDFS-3689.004.patch, HDFS-3689.005.patch, HDFS-3689.006.patch,
> HDFS-3689.007.patch, HDFS-3689.008.patch, HDFS-3689.008.patch,
> HDFS-3689.009.patch, HDFS-3689.009.patch, HDFS-3689.010.patch,
> HDFS-3689.branch-2.patch, editsStored
>
>
> Currently HDFS supports fixed length blocks. Supporting variable length block
> will allow new use cases and features to be built on top of HDFS.
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