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Liu Shaohui commented on HDFS-8131:
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The failed test: TestHdfsConfigFields has no relations with this patch. It
failed in trunk also.
> Implement a space balanced block placement policy
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>
> Key: HDFS-8131
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8131
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: namenode
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Liu Shaohui
> Assignee: Liu Shaohui
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: BlockPlacementPolicy
> Fix For: 3.0.0
>
> Attachments: HDFS-8131-v1.diff, HDFS-8131-v2.diff, HDFS-8131-v3.diff,
> balanced.png
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> The default block placement policy will choose datanodes for new blocks
> randomly, which will result in unbalanced space used percent among datanodes
> after an cluster expansion. The old datanodes always are in high used percent
> of space and new added ones are in low percent.
> Through we can used the external balance tool to balance the space used rate,
> it will cost extra network IO and it's not easy to control the balance speed.
> An easy solution is to implement an balanced block placement policy which
> will choose low used percent datanodes for new blocks with a little high
> possibility. In a not long term, the used percent of datanodes will trend to
> be balanced.
> Suggestions and discussions are welcomed. Thanks
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