On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Stas Oskin <stas.os...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. > > Thanks for clarification. > > Append will be supported fully in 0.21. > > > > > Any ETA for this version? > Should be out soon - Tom White is working hard on the release. Note that the first release, 0.21.0, will be somewhat of a "development quality" release not recommended for production use. Of course, the way it will become production-worthy is by less risk-averse people trying it and finding the bugs :) > Will it work both with Fuse and HDFS API? > > I don't know that the Fuse code has been updated to call append. My guess is that a small patch would be required. > > > Also, append does *not* add random write. It simply adds the ability to > > re-open a file and add more data to the end. > > > > > Just to clarify, even with append it won't be possible to: > 1) Pause writing of new file, skip to any position, and update the data. > 2) Open existing file, skip to any position and update the data. > > Correct, neither of those are allowed. > This will be even with FUSE. > > Is this correct? > > Regards. > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
