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Haohui Mai commented on HDFS-8823: ---------------------------------- This jira is focus on replication factor. I suggest opening another jira if you want to discuss moving storage policy. Although it looks like no consensuses have been reached yet, I encourage you to submit a patch to demonstrate your idea. Comments on such a high level can be quite vague and speculative. Code talks. > Move replication factor into individual blocks > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-8823 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8823 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Haohui Mai > Assignee: Haohui Mai > Attachments: HDFS-8823.000.patch > > > This jira proposes to record the replication factor in the {{BlockInfo}} > class. The changes have two advantages: > * Decoupling the namespace and the block management layer. It is a > prerequisite step to move block management off the heap or to a separate > process. > * Increased flexibility on replicating blocks. Currently the replication > factors of all blocks have to be the same. The replication factors of these > blocks are equal to the highest replication factor across all snapshots. The > changes will allow blocks in a file to have different replication factor, > potentially saving some space. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)