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Arpit Agarwal commented on HDFS-4645:
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Sorry I meant to say I filed HDFS-4961.
> Move from randomly generated block ID to sequentially generated block ID
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> Key: HDFS-4645
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4645
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: namenode
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
> Assignee: Arpit Agarwal
> Attachments: editsStored, HDFS-4645.001.patch, HDFS-4645.002.patch,
> HDFS-4645.003.patch, HDFS-4645.004.patch, HDFS-4645.005.patch,
> HDFS-4645.006.patch, SequentialblockIDallocation.pdf
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> Currently block IDs are randomly generated. This means there is no pattern to
> block ID generation and no guarantees such as uniqueness of block ID for the
> life time of the system can be made. I propose using SequentialNumber for
> block ID generation.
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