Hi Shani,

As discussed, please thoroughly evaluate the extension points available to
implement this in a much cleaner way as well as the challenges, etc that
exist while doing this with the latest versions, and update the thread so
those information will be visible for a wider audience.


Cheers,
Prabath


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Shani Ranasinghe <sh...@wso2.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have made a mistake on the hadoop versions. It is hadoop version 2.2.0.
> https://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html#15+October%2C+2013%3A+Release+2.2.0+available,
> this is the latest recommended release.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Shani Ranasinghe <sh...@wso2.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hadoop 2.1.0 release [1] is mentioned to be stable. I suggest we use this
>> feature for SS future release.
>>
>> In hadoop 2, a main feature that is introduced is federation. This is
>> where there can be multiple namenodes/namespaces per cluster.  A namenode
>> here means a active namenode, a passive namenode and a secondary namenode.
>> So with this approach, if we dedicate one namenode/namespace per tenant we
>> can get the tenant isolation.
>>
>> As per the discussion I had with Prabath A, and Dhanuka on friday, we had
>> 2 questions,
>>
>> 1) Can there be multiple namespaces in a single namenode? is it
>> recommended?
>>
>> 2) Let's say I have a federated namespace/namenodes. There are two
>> namenodes A /namespace A1 and namenode B/namespace B1, and have 3
>> datanodes. Can someone from namespace A1,  access the datanode's data in
>> anyway belonging to namespace B1. If not how is it handled?
>>
>> IMO this could be handled to some extend with the usage of kerberos in
>> HDFS. The delegation tokens could be of use in this case. However will need
>> to look into this more.
>>
>> I have raised these questions on the HDFS mailing lists, but have not yet
>> got any response.
>>
>> I am yet to try the Hadoop 2 aforementioned release. Will do a POC and
>> update.
>>
>> [1] Hadoop 
>> 2.1.0-beta<http://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html#23+September%2C+2013%3A+Release+2.1.1-beta+available>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> *,Shani Ranasinghe*
>> Software Engineer
>> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>>
>> mobile: +94 77 2273555
>> linked in: lk.linkedin.com/pub/shani-ranasinghe/34/111/ab
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks and Regards
> *, Shani Ranasinghe*
> Software Engineer
> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
> lean.enterprise.middleware
>
> mobile: +94 77 2273555
> linked in: lk.linkedin.com/pub/shani-ranasinghe/34/111/ab
>



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