Fyi - Owen is referring to: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2559
On 11/24/08 10:22 PM, "Owen O'Malley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Mahadev Konar wrote: > Hi Dennis, > I don't think that is possible to do. No, it is not possible. > The block placement is determined > by HDFS internally (which is local, rack local and off rack). Actually, it was changed in 0.17 or so to be node-local, off-rack, and a second node off rack. -- Owen