Thanks for the great work, Anu.

I have ran a test on a local cluster.  One suggestion is that the CLI
help messages should be more consistent with the rest of rest of hdfs
command line tools.

+1 for the merge.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Jitendra Pandey
<jiten...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
> I think this is a very useful feature.
> I have file an improvement request, but that doesn’t block the merge. I think 
> the core functionality is complete, with good test coverage and documentation.
>
> +1 for the merge.
>
> On Jun 22, 2016, at 12:28 AM, Arpit Agarwal <aagar...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
>
>> This feature is frequently requested by users and would be a useful addition 
>> to HDFS.
>>
>> I’ve code reviewed many of the sub-tasks and have tried out Disk Balancer in 
>> a test cluster. Suggested a couple of usability improvements. These are 
>> tracked by open Jiras but they need not hold up the merge. The documentation 
>> looks great.
>>
>> +1 for merging with HDFS-10557 fixed.
>>
>>
>> On 6/15/16, 5:38 PM, "Anu Engineer" <aengin...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would like to propose a merge vote for HDFS-1312 (Disk balancer) branch to 
>> trunk. This branch creates a new tool that allows balancing of data on a 
>> datanode.
>>
>> The voting commences now and will run for 7 days till Jun/22/2016 5:00 PM 
>> PST.
>>
>> This tool distributes data evenly between the disks of same type on a 
>> datanode.
>> This is useful if a disk has been replaced or if some disks are out of space 
>> compared to rest of the disks.
>>
>> The current set of commands supported are:
>>
>> 1. Plan - Allows user to create a plan and review it. The plan describes how 
>> the data will be moved in the data node.
>>
>> 2. Execute - Allows execution of a plan against a datanode.
>>
>> 3. Query – Queries the status of disk balancer execution.
>>
>> 4. Cancel - cancels a running disk balancer plan.
>>
>> 5. Report – Reports the current state of data distribution on a node.
>>
>>
>> ·         The original proposal that captures the rationale and possible 
>> solution is here.  [ 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12755226/disk-balancer-proposal.pdf
>>  ]
>>
>> ·         The updated architecture and test plan document is here. [ 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12810720/Architecture_and_test_update.pdf
>>  ]
>>
>> ·         The merge patch that is a diff against trunk is posted here. [ 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12810943/HDFS-1312.001.patch
>>  ]
>>
>> ·         The user documentation which will be part of apache is posted 
>> here. [ 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12805976/HDFS-9547-HDFS-1312.002.patch
>>  ]
>>
>>
>> HDFS-1312 has a set of sub-tasks and they are ordered in the same sequence 
>> as they were committed to HDFS-1312. Hopefully this will make it easy to 
>> code review this branch.
>>
>> There are a set of commands which we would like to do later, including 
>> discovering which datanodes in the cluster would benefit by running disk 
>> balancer.
>> Appropriate JIRAs for these future work items are filed under HDFS-1312.
>>
>> Disk Balancer is made possible due to the work of many community members 
>> including Arpit Agarwal, Vinayakumar B, Mingliang Liu, Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze,
>> Lei (Eddy) Xu and Xiaobing Zhou. I would like to thank them all for the 
>> effort and support.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Anu
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: hdfs-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: hdfs-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org
>



-- 
Lei (Eddy) Xu
Software Engineer, Cloudera

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: hdfs-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: hdfs-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org

Reply via email to