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Walter Su commented on HDFS-7068:
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part of this patch is for HDFS-7613. Maybe I should submit the patch there.
> Support multiple block placement policies
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> Key: HDFS-7068
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7068
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: namenode
> Affects Versions: 2.5.1
> Reporter: Zesheng Wu
> Assignee: Walter Su
> Attachments: HDFS-7068.patch
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> According to the code, the current implement of HDFS only supports one
> specific type of block placement policy, which is BlockPlacementPolicyDefault
> by default.
> The default policy is enough for most of the circumstances, but under some
> special circumstances, it works not so well.
> For example, on a shared cluster, we want to erasure encode all the files
> under some specified directories. So the files under these directories need
> to use a new placement policy.
> But at the same time, other files still use the default placement policy.
> Here we need to support multiple placement policies for the HDFS.
> One plain thought is that, the default placement policy is still configured
> as the default. On the other hand, HDFS can let user specify customized
> placement policy through the extended attributes(xattr). When the HDFS choose
> the replica targets, it firstly check the customized placement policy, if not
> specified, it fallbacks to the default one.
> Any thoughts?
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