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Nihal Jain commented on HBASE-21672:
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{quote}Shouldn't this either be a no-op for filesystems that don't have
locality, or something we can just ask the filesystem?
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The file-system does not directly return anything as locality as such. We have
some logic to calculate it in hbase. it is based on {{HDFSBlocksDistribution}}
information which we create using block location information returned by under
lying fs.
I think this solution should be fine, and will be useful, given we know our fs
would not do us any good and may waste cpu cycles in creating this
{{HDFSBlocksDistribution}} information. In fact we already have something
similar in HBase, see
[HBASE-18478|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-18478].
> Allow skipping HDFS block distribution computation
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> Key: HBASE-21672
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21672
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Nihal Jain
> Assignee: Nihal Jain
> Priority: Major
> Labels: S3
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> We should have a configuration to skip HDFS block distribution calculation in
> HBase. For example on file systems that do not surface locality such as S3,
> calculating block distribution would not be any useful.
> Currentlly, we do not have a way to skip hdfs block distribution computation.
> For this, we can provide a new configuration key, say
> {{hbase.block.distribution.skip.computation}} (which would be {{false}} by
> default).
> Users using filesystems such as s3 may choose to make this {{true}}, thus
> skipping block distribution computation.
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