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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-898:
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I think we should do sequential-ids only for newly formatted clusters and not
require that existing upgrade their disk formats.
> Sequential generation of block ids
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> Key: HDFS-898
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-898
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: name-node
> Affects Versions: 0.20.1
> Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
> Fix For: 0.23.0
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> Attachments: DuplicateBlockIds.patch, FreeBlockIds.pdf,
> HighBitProjection.pdf
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> This is a proposal to replace random generation of block ids with a
> sequential generator in order to avoid block id reuse in the future.
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