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Posted to common-user@hadoop.apache.org by Doug Cutting <cu...@apache.org> on 2008/12/01 21:14:01 UTC

Re: Namenode BlocksMap on Disk

Billy Pearson wrote:
> We are looking for a way to support smaller clusters also that might 
> over run there heap size causing the cluster to crash.

Support for namespaces larger than RAM would indeed be a good feature to 
have.  Implementing this without impacting large cluster in-memory 
namenode performance should be possible, but may or may not be easy. 
You are welcome to tackle this task if it is a priority for you.

Doug