On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> 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? > > I thought it had made changes in the last few releases, but I guess I was mistaken. Thank you for the help. > -Todd > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera > John
