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Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze updated HDFS-8824:
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Attachment: h8824_20150811b.patch
h8824_20150811b.patch: reverts the NN change. Will do it in a separated JIRA.
> Do not use small blocks for balancing the cluster
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> Key: HDFS-8824
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8824
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: balancer & mover
> Reporter: Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
> Assignee: Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
> Attachments: h8824_20150727b.patch, h8824_20150811b.patch
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> Balancer gets datanode block lists from NN and then move the blocks in order
> to balance the cluster. It should not use the blocks with small size since
> moving the small blocks generates a lot of overhead and the small blocks do
> not help balancing the cluster much.
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