Hi everyone, I'm still getting up to speed on the changes here (my fault for not following development more closely, other priorities etc etc), but the branch thus far is already quite impressive. It's quite an undertaking to turn the DN into a collection of Storages, along with the corresponding datastructure, tracking, and other changes in the NN and DN.
Correct me if I'm wrong though, but this still leaves a substantial part of the design doc to be implemented. Looking at the list of remaining subtasks, it seems like we still can't specify a storage type for a file (HDFS-5229) or write a file to a given storage type (HDFS-5391), along with the corresponding client protocol changes. This leads me to two questions: - If this is merged, what can I do with the new code? Without client changes or the ability to create a file on a different storage type, I don't know how (for example) I could hand this to our QA team to test. I'm wondering why we want to merge now rather than when the branch is more feature complete. - What's the plan for the implementation of the remaining features? How many phases? What's the timeline for these phases? Particularly, related to the use cases presented in section 2 of the design doc. I'm also going to post some design doc questions to the JIRA, there are a few technical q's I'd like to get clarification on. Thanks, Andrew On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Sirianni, Eric <eric.siria...@netapp.com>wrote: > +1 > > My team has been developing and testing against the HDFS-2832 branch for > the past month. It has proven to be quite stable. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Arpit Agarwal [mailto:aagar...@hortonworks.com] > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 7:07 PM > To: hdfs-...@hadoop.apache.org; common-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: [VOTE] Merge HDFS-2832 Heterogeneous Storage Phase 1 to trunk > > Hello all, > > I would like to call a vote to merge phase 1 of the Heterogeneous Storage > feature into trunk. > > *Scope of the changes:* > The changes allow exposing the DataNode as a collection of storages and set > the foundation for subsequent work to present Heterogeneous Storages to > applications. This allows DataNodes to send block and storage reports > per-storage. In addition this change introduces the ability to add a > 'storage type' tag to the storage directories. This enables supporting > different types of storages in addition to disk storage. > > Development of the feature is tracked in the jira > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2832. > > *Details of development and testing:* > Development has been done in a separate branch - > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/HDFS-2832. The > updated design is posted at - > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12615761/20131125-HeterogeneousStorage.pdf > . > The changes involve ~6K changed lines of code, with a third of those > changes being to tests. > > Please see the test plan > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12616642/20131202-HeterogeneousStorage-TestPlan.pdffor > the details. Once the feature is > merged into trunk, we will continue to test and fix any bugs that may be > found on trunk as well as add further tests as outlined in the test plan. > > The bulk of the design and implementation was done by Suresh Srinivas, > Sanjay Radia, Nicholas Sze, Junping Du and me. Also, thanks to Eric > Sirianni, Chris Nauroth, Steve Loughran, Bikas Saha, Andrew Wang and Todd > Lipcon for providing feedback on the Jiras and in discussions. > > This vote runs for a week and closes on 12/9/2013 at 11:59 pm PT. > > Thanks, > Arpit > > -- > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately > and delete it from your system. Thank You. >
