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Karthik Ranganathan commented on HBASE-4668: -------------------------------------------- @Andrew - totally, will let Pritam comment on that :) > List HDFS enhancements to speed up backups for HBase > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-4668 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4668 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: documentation, regionserver > Reporter: Karthik Ranganathan > Assignee: Pritam Damania > > There are a host of improvements that help: > - HDFS fast copy > - Various enhancements to fast copy to speed up things > - File level hard links - which does ext3 hardlinks instead of copying blocks > thereby saving a lot of iops > Need to list out the HDFS jira's and have patches on them. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira