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Virajith Jalaparti commented on HDFS-15289:
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cc: @shv [~cliang], [~abhishekd]
Hi [~umamaheswararao], thanks for posting this! At LinkedIn, we are currently
evaluating the same situation and are implementing a solution along the same
lines as described in the doc (both problem 1 and 2 as discussed in your
document).
Our use cases include:
* HDFS federation (we are currently working on federating our largest cluster)
* Accessing data across multiple storage accounts in Azure (as part of
migration to cloud).
* The same user code (UDFs etc.) should be able to work on both 1 and 2. In
many cases, UDFs use {{hdfs:///.}}
Our concerns around overriding {{fs.hdfs.impl}} are:
# {{saveNamespace}} and other methods in {{FileSystem}} all needed to be
implemented in {{ViewFSOveraloadScheme}}. Do you have any specific plans around
testing this?
# Admins will not have a way to directly access HDFS unless configs on admin
machines are deployed separately. Is this something you considered? How do you
plan to make admin tools work?
# How do we handle cases where {{DistributedFileSystem}} is used instead of
{{FileSystem}}?
> Allow viewfs mounts with hdfs scheme and centralized mount table
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>
> Key: HDFS-15289
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-15289
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: fs
> Affects Versions: 3.2.0
> Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G
> Assignee: Uma Maheswara Rao G
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.4.0
>
> Attachments: ViewFSOverloadScheme - V1.0.pdf
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>
> ViewFS provides flexibility to mount different filesystem types with mount
> points configuration table. Additionally viewFS provides flexibility to
> configure any fs (not only HDFS) scheme in mount table mapping. This approach
> is solving the scalability problems, but users need to reconfigure the
> filesystem to ViewFS and to its scheme. This will be problematic in the case
> of paths persisted in meta stores, ex: Hive. In systems like Hive, it will
> store uris in meta store. So, changing the file system scheme will create a
> burden to upgrade/recreate meta stores. In our experience many users are not
> ready to change that.
> Router based federation is another implementation to provide coordinated
> mount points for HDFS federation clusters. Even though this provides
> flexibility to handle mount points easily, this will not allow
> other(non-HDFS) file systems to mount. So, this does not solve the purpose
> when users want to mount external(non-HDFS) filesystems.
> So, the problem here is: Even though many users want to adapt to the scalable
> fs options available, technical challenges of changing schemes (ex: in meta
> stores) in deployments are obstructing them.
> So, we propose to allow hdfs scheme in ViewFS like client side mount system
> and provision user to create mount links without changing URI paths.
> I will upload detailed design doc shortly.
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