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Jing Zhao commented on HDFS-3689: --------------------------------- Another question with the sparse file is that when we copy the replica (e.g., under-replication recovery, or Balancer, or distcp) across DN, will we lose the benefits of the sparse files unless we let the DNs/tools understand the sparse semantic? > Add support for variable length block > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-3689 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3689 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: datanode, hdfs-client, namenode > Affects Versions: 3.0.0 > Reporter: Suresh Srinivas > Assignee: Suresh Srinivas > Attachments: HDFS-3689.000.patch, HDFS-3689.001.patch > > > Currently HDFS supports fixed length blocks. Supporting variable length block > will allow new use cases and features to be built on top of HDFS. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)