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Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze commented on HDFS-3702:
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As mentioned before, once CreateFlag.NO_LOCAL_WRITE is added, we cannot remove 
later.  So let add this flag later so that it allows us to test the feature and 
see if it is good enough or we may actually need disfavoredNodes.  Sound good?

> Add an option for NOT writing the blocks locally if there is a datanode on 
> the same box as the client
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-3702
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3702
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: hdfs-client
>    Affects Versions: 2.5.1
>            Reporter: Nicolas Liochon
>            Assignee: Lei (Eddy) Xu
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: BB2015-05-TBR
>         Attachments: HDFS-3702.000.patch, HDFS-3702.001.patch, 
> HDFS-3702.002.patch, HDFS-3702.003.patch, HDFS-3702.004.patch, 
> HDFS-3702.005.patch, HDFS-3702.006.patch, HDFS-3702.007.patch, 
> HDFS-3702.008.patch, HDFS-3702.009.patch, HDFS-3702.010.patch, 
> HDFS-3702.011.patch, HDFS-3702_Design.pdf
>
>
> This is useful for Write-Ahead-Logs: these files are writen for recovery 
> only, and are not read when there are no failures.
> Taking HBase as an example, these files will be read only if the process that 
> wrote them (the 'HBase regionserver') dies. This will likely come from a 
> hardware failure, hence the corresponding datanode will be dead as well. So 
> we're writing 3 replicas, but in reality only 2 of them are really useful.



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