I explained my reasoning in the jira https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4114?focusedCommentId=13841326&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13841326
And would like to ask people to hold off removing BN from trunk just yet. I see it beneficial for everybody - at least business-wise. I offered my help working on any related issues. Thanks, --Konst On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Suresh Srinivas <sur...@hortonworks.com>wrote: > It is almost an year a jira proposed deprecating backup node - > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4114. > > Maintaining it adds unnecessary work. As an example, when I added support > for retry cache there were bunch of code paths related to backup node that > added unnecessary work. I do not know of anyone who is using this. > > If there are no objections, I want to deprecate that code in 2.3 release > and remove it from trunk. I will start this work next week. > > Regards, > > Suresh > > > -- > http://hortonworks.com/download/ > > -- > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately > and delete it from your system. Thank You. >
