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Hadoop QA commented on HDFS-3689: --------------------------------- {color:red}-1 overall{color}. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12692346/HDFS-3689.005.patch against trunk revision 6464a89. {color:green}+1 @author{color}. The patch does not contain any @author tags. {color:green}+1 tests included{color}. The patch appears to include 8 new or modified test files. {color:green}+1 javac{color}. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings. {color:green}+1 javadoc{color}. There were no new javadoc warning messages. {color:green}+1 eclipse:eclipse{color}. The patch built with eclipse:eclipse. {color:green}+1 findbugs{color}. The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs (version 2.0.3) warnings. {color:green}+1 release audit{color}. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings. {color:red}-1 core tests{color}. The patch failed these unit tests in hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs: org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.offlineEditsViewer.TestOfflineEditsViewer The test build failed in hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs Test results: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HDFS-Build/9214//testReport/ Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HDFS-Build/9214//console This message is automatically generated. > Add support for variable length block > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-3689 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3689 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: datanode, hdfs-client, namenode > Affects Versions: 3.0.0 > Reporter: Suresh Srinivas > Assignee: Jing Zhao > Attachments: HDFS-3689.000.patch, HDFS-3689.001.patch, > HDFS-3689.002.patch, HDFS-3689.003.patch, HDFS-3689.003.patch, > HDFS-3689.004.patch, HDFS-3689.005.patch > > > Currently HDFS supports fixed length blocks. Supporting variable length block > will allow new use cases and features to be built on top of HDFS. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)