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Steve Loughran commented on HDFS-9607:
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no: the source should be a byte array with offset within the buffer and length 
in it.

Imagine you want to write 1GB from a 4GB source. creating a new byte array and 
copying over 1GB of data would be a performance killer. 

You need to consider where data come from, where it goes to. Often it's come 
over the network as part of a larger byte[] payload. Sometimes it's then 
encrypted, usually into a pre-allocated byte[] array. We don't need any more 
copies

> Advance Hadoop Architecture (AHA) - HDFS Update (write-in-place)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-9607
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9607
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Dinesh S. Atreya
>
> Link to Umbrella JIRA
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12620 
> Provide capability to carry out in-place writes/updates. Only writes in-place 
> are supported where the existing length does not change.
> For example, "Hello World" can be replaced by "Hello HDFS!"
> See 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12620?focusedCommentId=15046300&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15046300
>  for more details.



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