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Hari Mankude commented on HDFS-2576:
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Is data skew going to be an issue where some DNs are overloaded vs other DNs?
Would this an issue when there is other data stored in hdfs along with hbase?
> Namenode should have a favored nodes hint to enable clients to have control
> over block placement.
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> Key: HDFS-2576
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2576
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Pritam Damania
> Attachments: hdfs-2576-1.txt, hdfs-2576-trunk-1.patch
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> Sometimes Clients like HBase are required to dynamically compute the
> datanodes it wishes to place the blocks for a file for higher level of
> locality. For this purpose there is a need of a way to give the Namenode a
> hint in terms of a favoredNodes parameter about the locations where the
> client wants to put each block. The proposed solution is a favored nodes
> parameter in the addBlock() method and in the create() file method to enable
> the clients to give the hints to the NameNode about the locations of each
> replica of the block. Note that this would be just a hint and finally the
> NameNode would look at disk usage, datanode load etc. and decide whether it
> can respect the hints or not.
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