It would provide better speed for failovers/migrations/cold starts. But block cache is definitely something we would want to rely on more for those, IMO
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mike Drob <[email protected]> wrote: > Second instinct is that since we have block caches, it might not matter. > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Mike Drob <[email protected]> wrote: > >> First instinct is to use it for the root/metadata tablets. >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Donald Miner <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> HDFS caching is part of the new Hadoop 2.3 release. From what I >>> understand, it allows you to mark specific files to be held in memory for >>> faster reads. >>> >>> Has anyone thought about how Accumulo could leverage this? >>> >> >> >
