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Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze edited comment on HDFS-3702 at 4/9/16 3:18 AM:
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I suggest adding a new create(..) method to DistributedFileSystem, either with
a new boolean or with the AddBlockFlag, in this JIRA so that the community can
try out the feature. We may add the CreateFlag.NO_LOCAL_WRITE once the feature
has been stabilized and we has decided that it is the right API.
As you mentioned, the favoredNodes turned out to be a not so good idea. I am
glad that it was not added to the FileSystem API at that time. Thanks.
was (Author: szetszwo):
I suggest adding a new create(..) method to DistributedFileSystem, either with
a new boolean or with the AddBlockFlag, in this JIRA so that the community can
try out the feature. We may add the CreateFlag.NO_LOCAL_WRITE once the feature
has been stabled and we has decided that it the right API.
As you mentioned, the favoredNodes turned out to be a not so good idea. I am
glad that it was not added to the FileSystem API at that time.
> 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
>
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> 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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