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Ramkumar Vadali commented on HDFS-503:
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@shravankumar, to get a basic idea of HDFS RAID, you can read up Dhruba's blog 
post 
http://hadoopblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/hdfs-and-erasure-codes-hdfs-raid.html

If you need this for demo purposes, could you use the current hadoop trunk? I 
am not sure about the exact date of the next release. 
To use RAID, you need to create a configuration file and start the RAID daemon. 
You can look for examples in the unit tests, say TestRaidNode.


For further communication, you can contact me directly.

> Implement erasure coding as a layer on HDFS
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-503
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-503
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: contrib/raid
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: dhruba borthakur
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
>         Attachments: raid1.txt, raid2.txt
>
>
> The goal of this JIRA is to discuss how the cost of raw storage for a HDFS 
> file system can be reduced. Keeping three copies of the same data is very 
> costly, especially when the size of storage is huge. One idea is to reduce 
> the replication factor and do erasure coding of a set of blocks so that the 
> over probability of failure of a block remains the same as before.
> Many forms of error-correcting codes are available, see 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_code. Also, recent research from CMU has 
> described DiskReduce 
> https://opencirrus.org/system/files/Gibson-OpenCirrus-June9-09.ppt.
> My opinion is to discuss implementation strategies that are not part of base 
> HDFS, but is a layer on top of HDFS.

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