Andy/others, The BookKeeper work hasnt been completed yet. There is ongoing work in
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1580 and others. Hopefully we'll have NN's running on BK soon! thanks mahadev On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: >> From: Jason Rutherglen <jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> >> Right and AN is not using ZK for the actual NameNode >> methods/functions, only for the failover election of the 'backup' >> NameNode? > > What do you mean by "actual NameNode methods/functions"? I believe there was > an effort during the development of AvatarNode to use BookKeeper > (http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.3.3/bookkeeperOverview.html) to > distribute the edit log. Is this what you mean? > > That effort ran into various problems but I don't know the detail. > > - Andy > > -- thanks mahadev @mahadevkonar
