On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Aaron T. Myers <a...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Given that the only substantive concerns with HDFS-347 seem to be about > Windows support for local reads, for now we only merge this branch to > trunk. Support for doing HDFS-2246 style local reads will be removed from > trunk, but retained in branch-2 for now. Only once someone adds support for > doing HDFS-347 style local reads which work on Windows will we consider > merging HDFS-347 to branch-2. This should ensure that there's no feature > regression on branch-2, but also means that we will not need to maintain > the HDFS-2246 code path alongside the HDFS-347 code path indefinitely.
This seems reasonable, though retaining HDFS-2246 in branch-2 could be a workaround if a Windows port of HDFS-347 is not forthcoming. -C
