The following URL give a set of Hdfs features that are likely to appear in future releases of HDFS. The features are broken down by categories. In many cases they have pointers to Jiras.
More Jira pointers need to be added and new Jiras need to be created.Further, this wiki should be updated by developers as Jiras are completed and new features are added.
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HdfsFutures Enjoy. Feel free to send me feedback and to update the wiki sanjay
