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Jeff Hammerbacher commented on HDFS-1435:
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bq. Jeff, I'd like to take a look at the Avro file format. Do you know if Avro
file format has any overhead than the current fsimage format?
I don't know about the current fsimage format. The Avro format, however, is
detailed in the Avro spec:
http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html#Object+Container+Files
> Provide an option to store fsimage compressed
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> Key: HDFS-1435
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1435
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: name-node
> Affects Versions: 0.22.0
> Reporter: Hairong Kuang
> Assignee: Hairong Kuang
> Fix For: 0.22.0
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> Our HDFS has fsimage as big as 20G bytes. It consumes a lot of network
> bandwidth when secondary NN uploads a new fsimage to primary NN.
> If we could store fsimage compressed, the problem could be greatly alleviated.
> I plan to provide a new configuration hdfs.image.compressed with a default
> value of false. If it is set to be true, fsimage is stored as compressed.
> The fsimage will have a new layout with a new field "compressed" in its
> header, indicating if the namespace is stored compressed or not.
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