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Steve Hoffman commented on HDFS-1312: ------------------------------------- Given the general nature of HDFS and its many uses (HBase, M/R, etc) as much as I'd like it to "just work", it is clear it always depends on the use. Maybe one day we won't need a balancer script for disks (or for the cluster). I'm totally OK with having a machine-level balancer script. We use the HDFS balancer to fix inter-machine imbalances when they crop up (again, for a variety of reasons). It makes sense to have a manual script for intra-machine imbalances for people who DO have issues and make it part of the standard install (like the HDFS balancer). > Re-balance disks within a Datanode > ---------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1312 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1312 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: data-node > Reporter: Travis Crawford > > Filing this issue in response to ``full disk woes`` on hdfs-user. > Datanodes fill their storage directories unevenly, leading to situations > where certain disks are full while others are significantly less used. Users > at many different sites have experienced this issue, and HDFS administrators > are taking steps like: > - Manually rebalancing blocks in storage directories > - Decomissioning nodes & later readding them > There's a tradeoff between making use of all available spindles, and filling > disks at the sameish rate. Possible solutions include: > - Weighting less-used disks heavier when placing new blocks on the datanode. > In write-heavy environments this will still make use of all spindles, > equalizing disk use over time. > - Rebalancing blocks locally. This would help equalize disk use as disks are > added/replaced in older cluster nodes. > Datanodes should actively manage their local disk so operator intervention is > not needed. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira