Hi Lucas, HDFS does not have this capability right now, but there has been some preliminary discussion around adding features to support it. You might want to follow jira issues HDFS-2832 and HDFS-4672 if you'd like to receive notifications about the discussion.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2832 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4672 Chris Nauroth Hortonworks http://hortonworks.com/ On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Lucas Stanley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to tell Apache HDFS to store some files on SSD and the rest > of the files on spinning disks? > > So if each on my nodes has 1 SSD and 5 spinning disks, can I configure a > directory in HDFS to put all files in that dir on the SSD? > > I think Intel's Hadoop distribution is working on some SSD support right? >
