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 Reporter: Karthik Ranganathan 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