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Walter Su commented on HDFS-8833:
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revision: 1st quote is from Zhe Zhang. 2nd quote is from Andrew Wang.

> Erasure coding: store EC schema and cell size in INodeFile and eliminate 
> notion of EC zones
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-8833
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8833
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: namenode
>    Affects Versions: HDFS-7285
>            Reporter: Zhe Zhang
>            Assignee: Zhe Zhang
>         Attachments: HDFS-8833-HDFS-7285-merge.00.patch, 
> HDFS-8833-HDFS-7285-merge.01.patch, HDFS-8833-HDFS-7285.02.patch
>
>
> We have [discussed | 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7285?focusedCommentId=14357754&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14357754]
>  storing EC schema with files instead of EC zones and recently revisited the 
> discussion under HDFS-8059.
> As a recap, the _zone_ concept has severe limitations including renaming and 
> nested configuration. Those limitations are valid in encryption for security 
> reasons and it doesn't make sense to carry them over in EC.
> This JIRA aims to store EC schema and cell size on {{INodeFile}} level. For 
> simplicity, we should first implement it as an xattr and consider memory 
> optimizations (such as moving it to file header) as a follow-on. We should 
> also disable changing EC policy on a non-empty file / dir in the first phase.



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