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Todd Lipcon commented on HDFS-5851:
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Yep, the native checksumming that James is working on is one big part of it. 
The other half is the work that Trevor Robinson was doing on using 
DirectByteBuffers on the DN side to avoid some copies to/from byte arrays.

> Support memory as a storage medium
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-5851
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5851
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: datanode
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0
>            Reporter: Arpit Agarwal
>            Assignee: Arpit Agarwal
>         Attachments: 
> SupportingMemoryStorageinHDFSPersistentandDiscardableMemory.pdf, 
> SupportingMemoryStorageinHDFSPersistentandDiscardableMemory.pdf
>
>
> Memory can be used as a storage medium for smaller/transient files for fast 
> write throughput.
> More information/design will be added later.



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