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Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze commented on HDFS-8890: ------------------------------------------- We should also update hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HDFSCommands.md . See if you want to do it here or in HDFS-8923. Thanks for working on this. > Allow admin to specify which blockpools the balancer should run on > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-8890 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8890 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: balancer & mover > Reporter: Chris Trezzo > Assignee: Chris Trezzo > Attachments: HDFS-8890-trunk-v1.patch, HDFS-8890-trunk-v2.patch, > HDFS-8890-trunk-v3.patch > > > Currently the balancer runs on all blockpools. Allow an admin to run the > balancer on a set of blockpools. This will enable the balancer to skip > blockpools that should not be balanced. For example, a tmp blockpool that has > a large amount of churn. > An example of the command line interface would be an additional flag that > specifies the blockpools by id: > -blockpools > BP-6299761-10.55.116.188-1415904647555,BP-47348528-10.51.120.139-1415904199257 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)