HDFS-9889. Update balancer/mover document about HDFS-6133 feature. Contributed 
by Yongjun Zhang.


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Branch: refs/heads/yarn-2877
Commit: 8e08861a14cb5b6adce338543d7da08e9926ad46
Parents: 3e8099a
Author: Yongjun Zhang <yzh...@cloudera.com>
Authored: Fri Mar 4 13:25:29 2016 -0800
Committer: Yongjun Zhang <yzh...@cloudera.com>
Committed: Fri Mar 4 13:25:29 2016 -0800

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 .../hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HDFSCommands.md                | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/blob/8e08861a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HDFSCommands.md
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diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HDFSCommands.md 
b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HDFSCommands.md
index dc6e935..ae126a2 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HDFSCommands.md
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HDFSCommands.md
@@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ Runs a cluster balancing utility. An administrator can 
simply press Ctrl-C to st
 
 Note that the `blockpool` policy is more strict than the `datanode` policy.
 
+Besides the above command options, a pinning feature is introduced starting 
from 2.7.0 to prevent certain replicas from getting moved by balancer/mover. 
This pinning feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled by 
configuration property "dfs.datanode.block-pinning.enabled". When enabled, this 
feature only affects blocks that are written to favored nodes specified in the 
create() call. This feature is useful when we want to maintain the data 
locality, for applications such as HBase regionserver.
+
 ### `cacheadmin`
 
 Usage: `hdfs cacheadmin -addDirective -path <path> -pool <pool-name> [-force] 
[-replication <replication>] [-ttl <time-to-live>]`
@@ -445,6 +447,8 @@ Runs the data migration utility. See 
[Mover](./ArchivalStorage.html#Mover_-_A_Ne
 
 Note that, when both -p and -f options are omitted, the default path is the 
root directory.
 
+In addition, a pinning feature is introduced starting from 2.7.0 to prevent 
certain replicas from getting moved by balancer/mover. This pinning feature is 
disabled by default, and can be enabled by configuration property 
"dfs.datanode.block-pinning.enabled". When enabled, this feature only affects 
blocks that are written to favored nodes specified in the create() call. This 
feature is useful when we want to maintain the data locality, for applications 
such as HBase regionserver.
+
 ### `namenode`
 
 Usage:

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