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Andy Isaacson commented on HDFS-3672:
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bq. also involve a series of RPCs to the responsible datanodes to determine 
disk ids.
Keep in mind that this should be one RPC per DN rather than one RPC per block.  
If you have a dozen blocks on a single DN, it's a big and easy performance win 
to pass a vector of blocks and return a vector of locations, rather than asking 
for each block location in series.
                
> Expose disk-location information for blocks to enable better scheduling
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-3672
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3672
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha
>            Reporter: Andrew Wang
>            Assignee: Andrew Wang
>
> Currently, HDFS exposes on which datanodes a block resides, which allows 
> clients to make scheduling decisions for locality and load balancing. 
> Extending this to also expose on which disk on a datanode a block resides 
> would enable even better scheduling, on a per-disk rather than coarse 
> per-datanode basis.
> This API would likely look similar to Filesystem#getFileBlockLocations, but 
> also involve a series of RPCs to the responsible datanodes to determine disk 
> ids.

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