On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:14 AM, John Vines <john.w.vi...@ugov.gov> wrote: > So I'm trying to figure out the behavior of calling DFSOutputStream.close(), > as well as if/which version it changed in. I see in the javadocs that the > complete call (which close calls) will not return until "all the file's * > blocks have been replicated the minimum number of times". Is the minimum > number dfs.replication.min, or is it the files number of replications?
The former. > > Regardless of that answer, I'm curious when the behavior changed, if it > hadn't been like that. I remember it used to be that it would utilize lazy > replication, though that may just be for bringing underreplicated blocks up > to snuff. Any insight would be appreciated. I'm not aware of any change in recent years... what versions are you comparing? -Todd -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
