Online Snapshotting Capability ------------------------------ Key: HADOOP-2541 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2541 Project: Hadoop Issue Type: Improvement Components: dfs Affects Versions: 0.15.1 Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
Modern file systems have the ability to create snapshots of the running file system without having to unmount. HDFS should be offer similar capabilities to allow admins the ability to perform "online" backups of the file system such that files can be recovered after deletions or, for extra bonus points, catastrophic failures. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.