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sam rash reassigned HDFS-1214: ------------------------------ Assignee: sam rash > hdfs client metadata cache > -------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1214 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1214 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: hdfs client > Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma > Assignee: sam rash > > In some applications, latency is affected by the cost of making rpc calls to > namenode to fetch metadata. the most obvious case are calls to fetch > file/directory status. applications like hive like to make optimizations > based on file size/number etc. - and for such optimizations - 'recent' status > data (as opposed to most up-to-date) is acceptable. in such cases, a cache on > the DFS client that transparently caches metadata would be greatly benefit > applications. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.