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Todd Lipcon commented on HDFS-2656:
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Hi,
One question about this patch: one of the stated benefits of libwebhdfs is that
it wouldn't require a JVM to be loaded, and thus the clients would use less
memory. But I see lots of JNI code in the patch. So was this goal not attained?
If so, what's the benefit of libwebhdfs over just using the existing libhdfs
with a webhdfs:// URI?
> Implement a pure c client based on webhdfs
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>
> Key: HDFS-2656
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2656
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: webhdfs
> Reporter: Zhanwei.Wang
> Assignee: Jing Zhao
> Fix For: 2.0.3-alpha
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> Attachments: HDFS-2656.patch, HDFS-2656.patch, HDFS-2656.patch,
> HDFS-2656.unfinished.patch, teragen_terasort_teravalidate_performance.png
>
>
> Currently, the implementation of libhdfs is based on JNI. The overhead of JVM
> seems a little big, and libhdfs can also not be used in the environment
> without hdfs.
> It seems a good idea to implement a pure c client by wrapping webhdfs. It
> also can be used to access different version of hdfs.
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