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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HDFS-9607:
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Just want to add that random writes seem feasible to me, because truncate 
already introduced copy on write replicas. You should be able to reuse this 
technique for writes. If of course that was your intention with this jira.

> Advance Hadoop Architecture (AHA) - HDFS
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-9607
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9607
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Dinesh S. Atreya
>
> Link to Umbrella JIRA
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12620 
> Provide capability to carry out in-place writes/updates. Only writes in-place 
> are supported where the existing length does not change.
> For example, "Hello World" can be replaced by "Hello HDFS!"
> See 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12620?focusedCommentId=15046300&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15046300
>  for more details.



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