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Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze commented on HDFS-7285:
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> That's the benefit of striping: when divided into small units (64KB by
> default) and striped to multiple servers, even small files can be encoded.
> The fsimage analysis report quantifies the difference in space saving between
> striping and the traditional contiguous data layouts.
I thought the strip size is 1MB according to the figure in [Data Striping
Support in HDFS
Client|https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12687886/DataStripingSupportinHDFSClient.pdf].
Anyway, small files (say < 10MB) may not be EC at all since the disk space
save is not much and the namespace usage is increased significantly.
BTW, the fsimage analysis is very nice. There are two more types of cost not
covered, CPU overhead and replication cost (re-constructing the EC blocks).
How could we quantify them?
> Erasure Coding Support inside HDFS
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>
> Key: HDFS-7285
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7285
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Weihua Jiang
> Assignee: Zhe Zhang
> Attachments: ECAnalyzer.py, ECParser.py,
> HDFSErasureCodingDesign-20141028.pdf, HDFSErasureCodingDesign-20141217.pdf,
> fsimage-analysis-20150105.pdf
>
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> Erasure Coding (EC) can greatly reduce the storage overhead without sacrifice
> of data reliability, comparing to the existing HDFS 3-replica approach. For
> example, if we use a 10+4 Reed Solomon coding, we can allow loss of 4 blocks,
> with storage overhead only being 40%. This makes EC a quite attractive
> alternative for big data storage, particularly for cold data.
> Facebook had a related open source project called HDFS-RAID. It used to be
> one of the contribute packages in HDFS but had been removed since Hadoop 2.0
> for maintain reason. The drawbacks are: 1) it is on top of HDFS and depends
> on MapReduce to do encoding and decoding tasks; 2) it can only be used for
> cold files that are intended not to be appended anymore; 3) the pure Java EC
> coding implementation is extremely slow in practical use. Due to these, it
> might not be a good idea to just bring HDFS-RAID back.
> We (Intel and Cloudera) are working on a design to build EC into HDFS that
> gets rid of any external dependencies, makes it self-contained and
> independently maintained. This design lays the EC feature on the storage type
> support and considers compatible with existing HDFS features like caching,
> snapshot, encryption, high availability and etc. This design will also
> support different EC coding schemes, implementations and policies for
> different deployment scenarios. By utilizing advanced libraries (e.g. Intel
> ISA-L library), an implementation can greatly improve the performance of EC
> encoding/decoding and makes the EC solution even more attractive. We will
> post the design document soon.
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