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Sanjay Radia commented on HDFS-6200:
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+++1 for this proposal.

> Create a separate jar for hdfs-client
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-6200
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6200
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Haohui Mai
>            Assignee: Haohui Mai
>         Attachments: HDFS-6200.000.patch, HDFS-6200.001.patch, 
> HDFS-6200.002.patch, HDFS-6200.003.patch, HDFS-6200.004.patch, 
> HDFS-6200.005.patch, HDFS-6200.006.patch, HDFS-6200.007.patch
>
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> Currently the hadoop-hdfs jar contain both the hdfs server and the hdfs 
> client. As discussed in the hdfs-dev mailing list 
> (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-hdfs-dev/201404.mbox/browser),
>  downstream projects are forced to bring in additional dependency in order to 
> access hdfs. The additional dependency sometimes can be difficult to manage 
> for projects like Apache Falcon and Apache Oozie.
> This jira proposes to create a new project, hadoop-hdfs-cliient, which 
> contains the client side of the hdfs code. Downstream projects can use this 
> jar instead of the hadoop-hdfs to avoid unnecessary dependency.
> Note that it does not break the compatibility of downstream projects. This is 
> because old downstream projects implicitly depend on hadoop-hdfs-client 
> through the hadoop-hdfs jar.



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