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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-1108: ---------------------------------------- > how does namenode handle these blocks during restart, if the block was never > written to the datanode? >From my understanding, this problem exists in the current trunk too (and is >not introduced by this patch) when an application uses hflush. > ability to create a file whose newly allocated blocks are automatically > persisted immediately > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1108 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1108 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: name-node > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: Dmytro Molkov > Attachments: HDFS-1108.patch > > > The current HDFS design says that newly allocated blocks for a file are not > persisted in the NN transaction log when the block is allocated. Instead, a > hflush() or a close() on the file persists the blocks into the transaction > log. It would be nice if we can immediately persist newly allocated blocks > (as soon as they are allocated) for specific files. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.