HDFS-1520 was forward ported to trunk by Stack: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1948
J-D On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Ryan Rawson <ryano...@gmail.com> wrote: > The IO fencing was an accidental byproduct of how HDFS-200 was > implemented, so in fact, HBase won't run correctly on HDFS-265 which > does NOT have that IO fencing, right? > > > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org> > wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:52 AM, M. C. Srivas <mcsri...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The normal behavior would be for the HMaster to make the hlog read-only >>> before processing it.... very simple fencing and works on all Posix or >>> close-to-Posix systems. Does that not work on HDFS? >> >> I'm sure you know the answer to that :) >> >> I agree it would be a better solution as it won't rely on the >> "particular" semantics of a single dfs. >> >> J-D >> >