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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-1120:
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Looks like a reasonable start. can we make the datanode to use a config that
specifies the classname that will implement the above interface?
> Make DataNode's block-to-device placement policy pluggable
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> Key: HDFS-1120
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1120
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: data-node
> Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher
> Assignee: Harsh J Chouraria
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> As discussed on the mailing list, as the number of disk drives per server
> increases, it would be useful to allow the DataNode's policy for new block
> placement to grow in sophistication from the current round-robin strategy.
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