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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-3637:
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> For large file systems, the main name node will not be able to fit a snapshot
> and the current view of the file system both in memory.
Perhaps snapshots should never be held in memory, but rather dealt with as an
on-disk datastructure? Thus it would be possible to browse snapshots, but not
very quickly. Would that be acceptable?
> Support for snapshots
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> Key: HADOOP-3637
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3637
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: dhruba borthakur
> Attachments: Snapshots.pdf, Snapshots.pdf
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> Support HDFS snapshots. It should support creating snapshots without shutting
> down the file system. Snapshot creation should be lightweight and a typical
> system should be able to support a few thousands concurrent snapshots. There
> should be a way to surface (i.e. mount) a few of these snapshots
> simultaneously.
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