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Rodrigo Schmidt commented on HDFS-1094:
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The higher the number of racks, the higher the latency for the write pipeline.
Otherwise, the default block placement policy would use 3 different racks
always instead of always having 2 replicas on the same rack.
I've had some general discussions with Dhruba about the balancer. It doesn't
use the block placement policy, so I'll have to extend it separately.
> Intelligent block placement policy to decrease probability of block loss
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> Key: HDFS-1094
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1094
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: name-node
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: Rodrigo Schmidt
> Attachments: prob.pdf, prob.pdf
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> The current HDFS implementation specifies that the first replica is local and
> the other two replicas are on any two random nodes on a random remote rack.
> This means that if any three datanodes die together, then there is a
> non-trivial probability of losing at least one block in the cluster. This
> JIRA is to discuss if there is a better algorithm that can lower probability
> of losing a block.
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