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Suresh Srinivas commented on HDFS-3689: --------------------------------------- My feeling is it should be able to start and stop on arbitrary boundaries. There are quite a few issues related to this that I have not through through. Also the impact of possibly applications assuming fixed size block etc. This change would also require quite a bit of testing. > Add support for variable length block > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-3689 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3689 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: data-node, hdfs client, name-node > Affects Versions: 3.0.0 > Reporter: Suresh Srinivas > Assignee: Suresh Srinivas > > Currently HDFS supports fixed length blocks. Supporting variable length block > will allow new use cases and features to be built on top of HDFS. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira