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Arpit Agarwal commented on HDFS-2832: ------------------------------------- Thanks for the feedback Eric. Both of these would be good to have and came up during design discussions but we have not addressed either. For #2, in addition to your points there are other locations where storage directories are assumed to be File-addressable. I am not sure of the amount of work involved here. Multiple replicas per Datanode looks easier and can be done on top of the Heterogeneous Storage work. We would need phase 1 of the feature to support multiple storages. > Enable support for heterogeneous storages in HDFS > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-2832 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2832 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Affects Versions: 0.24.0 > Reporter: Suresh Srinivas > Assignee: Suresh Srinivas > Attachments: 20130813-HeterogeneousStorage.pdf > > > HDFS currently supports configuration where storages are a list of > directories. Typically each of these directories correspond to a volume with > its own file system. All these directories are homogeneous and therefore > identified as a single storage at the namenode. I propose, change to the > current model where Datanode * is a * storage, to Datanode * is a collection > * of strorages. -- 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