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Harsh J Chouraria commented on HDFS-1120: ----------------------------------------- @Todd - Marked :) @Dhruba - Yes that's the idea! I'll post a patch soon. > Make DataNode's block-to-device placement policy pluggable > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira