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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-892: --------------------------------------- > Avro was not intended to be optional at compile time, only at run time. That seems kind of pointless to me. If you require it at compile time, why bother with making it optional at run time? > optionally use Avro for namenode RPC > ------------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-892 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-892 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: name-node > Reporter: Doug Cutting > Assignee: Doug Cutting > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: HDFS-892.patch, HDFS-892.patch, HDFS-892.patch, > HDFS-892.patch, HDFS-892.patch, HDFS-892.patch > > > It should be possible to configure HDFS so that Avro is used for RPCs to the > namenode. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.