Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-20 Thread Dhruba Borthakur
*Subject:* Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID That's right Andy. 0.22+. We are running a HDFS-RAID code base that is pretty close to what is available in Apache hdfs trunk. -dhruba On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.orgwrote: But that is the HDFS RAID

Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-20 Thread Ajit Ratnaparkhi
:* Dhruba Borthakur dhr...@gmail.com *To:* hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org; Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:14 AM *Subject:* Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID That's right Andy. 0.22+. We are running a HDFS-RAID code base that is pretty close to what

Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-20 Thread Dhruba Borthakur
Purtell apurt...@apache.org Cc: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:18 AM Subject: Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID Hi andy, we do run a version of HDFS RAID that is backported from Apache trunk to a 0.20 based release. Our code

Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-20 Thread Andrew Purtell
) From: Dhruba Borthakur dhr...@gmail.com To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org; Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:49 AM Subject: Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID Hi Andy, I will be very grateful to you if you merge and contribute it to Apache Hadoop

Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-17 Thread Andrew Purtell
. - Piet Hein (via Tom White) From: Dhruba Borthakur dhr...@gmail.com To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org; Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:14 AM Subject: Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID That's right Andy. 0.22+. We

Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-15 Thread Ajit Ratnaparkhi
Hi, We want to use HDFS-RAID in our production cluster. ( http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HDFS-RAID) I am not able to find source/binaries/configs for this in official hadoop distribution from apache hadoop. (checked in 0.20.1 and 0.20.2). Can somebody please tell me where can I find that? and

Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-15 Thread Harsh J
Hey Ajit, HDFS-RAID was never part of the 0.20 release. It made its debut in the 0.21 release [1]. I know that Facebook uses it (and also did develop it), but unsure of users beyond Facebook. While 0.21 overall is not entirely deemed as production-usable yet (and is in fact, possibly abandoned

Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-15 Thread Ajit Ratnaparkhi
Hi, We were planning to use it for past data archival(instead of moving it to archival store). Archiving it in HDFS gives advantage of making it easily available for processing whenever required. Is there any archival solution in hadoop ecosystem? thanks, Ajit. On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:05

Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-15 Thread Dhruba Borthakur
We use HDFS RAID in a big way. Data older than 12 days are RAIDED using XOR encoding (effective replication of 2.5). Data older than a few months are raided using ReedSolomon (effective observed replication factor of 1.5). This is running on our 60 PB size cluster for about an year now. thanks

Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Purtell
@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:06 AM Subject: Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID We use HDFS RAID in a big way. Data older than 12 days are RAIDED using XOR encoding (effective replication of 2.5). Data older than a few months are raided using ReedSolomon (effective observed

Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-15 Thread Ajit Ratnaparkhi
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White) -- *From:* Dhruba Borthakur dhr...@gmail.com *To:* hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:06 AM *Subject:* Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID We use

Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Purtell
) From: Ajit Ratnaparkhi ajit.ratnapar...@gmail.com To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org Cc: Andrew Purtell apurt...@apache.org Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Need help regarding HDFS-RAID Thanks for the info! So can I use HDFS-RAID taken from apache hdfs trunk