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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-988:
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Ok, Owen clarified that inheritance will affect things like RPC which will end
up serializing BlockInfo when users just want to send just a Block (among other
confusions). HADOOP-989 aims to get rid of Block onjects.. we will get the same
memory savings when that jira is fixed. For now we will keep Block and
BlockInfo seperate.
> Namenode should use single map for block to its meta data.
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> Key: HADOOP-988
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-988
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: Raghu Angadi
> Assigned To: Raghu Angadi
> Attachments: HADOOP-988-1.patch
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> This is a follow up from HADOOP-803. Currently there two maps which have
> similar functionality :
> 1) blockMap : maps block to list of datanodes that contain the block
> 2) activeBlocks : maps block to INode that it blongs to.
> Apart from simplifying, it saves 32 bytes per block and 24 bytes by avoid
> extra block object we currently have for files that exist before Namenode
> starts (see HADOOP-803).
> We could combine these two into something like block to { containingNodes,
> INode, etc }.
> Another option is to get Move INode and list of dataNodes into Block object.
> Another option that requires bigger change is not use Block object but just
> 64 bit BlockId. Then the map would be BlockId to all the block related info.
> I will file another Jira regd not using Block object in NameNode.
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