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Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze commented on HDFS-7943:
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Is it possible to change append so that it always appends to a new block when
the last block is great than or equal to the preferred block size?
> Append cannot handle the last block with length greater than the preferred
> block size
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> Key: HDFS-7943
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7943
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.7.0
> Reporter: Jing Zhao
> Assignee: Jing Zhao
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: HDFS-7943.000.patch
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> In HDFS-3689, we remove the restriction from concat that all the source files
> should have the same preferred block size with the target file. This can
> cause a file to contain blocks with size larger than its preferred block size.
> If such block happens to be the last block of a file, and later we append
> data to the file without the {{CreateFlag.NEW_BLOCK}} flag (i.e., appending
> data to the last block), looks like the current client code will keep writing
> to the last block and never allocate a new block.
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