[jira] [Resolved] (HDFS-3290) Use a better local directory layout for the datanode

["Colin Patrick McCabe (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3290?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Colin Patrick McCabe resolved HDFS-3290.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

> Use a better local directory layout for the datanode
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>                 Key: HDFS-3290
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3290
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.23.0
>            Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe
>            Assignee: Colin Patrick McCabe
>            Priority: Minor
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> When the HDFS DataNode stores chunks in a local directory, it currently puts all of the chunk files into either one big directory, or a collection of directories.  However, there is no way to know which directory a given block will end up in, given its ID.  As the number of files increases, this does not scale well.
> Similar to the git version control system, HDFS should create a few different top level directories keyed off of a few bits in the chunk ID.  Git uses 8 bits.  This substantially cuts down on the number of chunk files in the same directory and gives increased performance, while not compromising O(1) lookup of chunks.



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