hadoop-append feature not in stable release?

2010-03-29 Thread Gokulakannan M
Hi, I am new to hadoop. The following questions popped up in my mind and I couldn't get answers from web. I found that in hdfs-default.xml, the property dfs.support.append has been set to false by default with the description Does HDFS allow appends to

Re: hadoop-append feature not in stable release?

2010-03-29 Thread Todd Lipcon
Hi Gokul, You're correct that all of the stable released versions of Hadoop have a buggy implemention of append, and thus dfs.support.append is disabled in 0.20. The new implementation of append has been tracked in HDFS-265 and is now complete in trunk - just a few more tests are being done on