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sri commented on HDFS-503:
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I would like to know, if the stripes just act as a recovery option(when other
datanodes have failed), or can they act as input to the mapreduce jobs(to
satisfy locality).
> Implement erasure coding as a layer on HDFS
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>
> Key: HDFS-503
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-503
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: contrib/raid
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: dhruba borthakur
> Fix For: 0.21.0
>
> Attachments: raid1.txt, raid2.txt
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> The goal of this JIRA is to discuss how the cost of raw storage for a HDFS
> file system can be reduced. Keeping three copies of the same data is very
> costly, especially when the size of storage is huge. One idea is to reduce
> the replication factor and do erasure coding of a set of blocks so that the
> over probability of failure of a block remains the same as before.
> Many forms of error-correcting codes are available, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_code. Also, recent research from CMU has
> described DiskReduce
> https://opencirrus.org/system/files/Gibson-OpenCirrus-June9-09.ppt.
> My opinion is to discuss implementation strategies that are not part of base
> HDFS, but is a layer on top of HDFS.
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