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Arpit Agarwal updated HDFS-4645:
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    Assignee: Arpit Agarwal  (was: Suresh Srinivas)
    
> Move from randomly generated block ID to sequentially generated block ID
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>                 Key: HDFS-4645
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4645
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: namenode
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0
>            Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
>            Assignee: Arpit Agarwal
>         Attachments: HDFS-4645.001.patch, SequentialblockIDallocation.pdf
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> Currently block IDs are randomly generated. This means there is no pattern to 
> block ID generation and no guarantees such as uniqueness of block ID for the 
> life time of the system can be made. I propose using SequentialNumber for 
> block ID generation.

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