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Uma Maheswara Rao G commented on HDFS-2115: ------------------------------------------- Hi Todd, In our cluster we had implemented the compression support for HDFS (HDFS-1640). But here we were not storing the compressed data in DFS. We will decompress and store the data. Main goal of our compression is to save the network bandwidth. We could achieve ~50-70% improvements in read and write operations. bq. Not sure when I'd have time to work on it We will be happy to coordinate our efforts in implemening this feature. > Transparent compression in HDFS > ------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-2115 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2115 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: data-node, hdfs client > Reporter: Todd Lipcon > > In practice, we find that a lot of users store text data in HDFS without > using any compression codec. Improving usability of compressible formats like > Avro/RCFile helps with this, but we could also help many users by providing > an option to transparently compress data as it is stored. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira