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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-3429: ---------------------------------------- For the records, if you switch-on local read shortcircuit, then the read of the checksum file is avoided. > DataNode reads checksums even if client does not need them > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-3429 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3429 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: data-node, performance > Affects Versions: 2.0.0 > Reporter: Todd Lipcon > > Currently, even if the client does not want to verify checksums, the datanode > reads them anyway and sends them over the wire. This means that performance > improvements like HBase's application-level checksums don't have much benefit > when reading through the datanode, since the DN is still causing seeks into > the checksum file. > (Credit goes to Dhruba for discovering this - filing on his behalf) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira