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Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze commented on HDFS-3702:
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Suppose we find that the CreateFlag.NO_LOCAL_WRITE is bad. How do we remove
it, i.e. what is the procedure to remove it? I believe we cannot simply remove
it since it probably will break HBASE compilation.
Another possible case: suppose that we find the disfavorNodes feature is very
useful later on. How do we add it?
> ..., lets do whatever proofing of the feature is needed here as part of this
> issue and just get it done. ...
It seems that the "whatever proofing" is to let the community try the features
for a period of time. Then, we may add it to the FileSystem API.
> 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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