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Rodrigo Schmidt commented on HDFS-503: -------------------------------------- I've discussed with Dhruba about the need to create a hadoop property to define an hdfs property to specify the FileSystem class that will be used by DistributedRaidFileSystem, which now creates a new instance of DistributedFileSystem. Instead, it should use a new property like "fs.raid.underlyingfs.impl". > Implement erasure coding as a layer on HDFS > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-503 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-503 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: dhruba borthakur > Attachments: raid1.txt > > > The goal of this JIRA is to discuss how the cost of raw storage for a HDFS > file system can be reduced. Keeping three copies of the same data is very > costly, especially when the size of storage is huge. One idea is to reduce > the replication factor and do erasure coding of a set of blocks so that the > over probability of failure of a block remains the same as before. > Many forms of error-correcting codes are available, see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_code. Also, recent research from CMU has > described DiskReduce > https://opencirrus.org/system/files/Gibson-OpenCirrus-June9-09.ppt. > My opinion is to discuss implementation strategies that are not part of base > HDFS, but is a layer on top of HDFS. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.