[jira] [Created] (HDFS-10419) Building HDFS on top of Ozone's storage containers

["Jing Zhao (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jing Zhao created HDFS-10419:
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             Summary: Building HDFS on top of Ozone's storage containers
                 Key: HDFS-10419
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-10419
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Jing Zhao
            Assignee: Jing Zhao


In HDFS-7240, Ozone defines storage containers to store both the data and the metadata. The storage container layer provides an object storage interface and aims to manage data/metadata in a distributed manner. More details about storage containers can be found in the design doc in HDFS-7240.

HDFS can adopt the storage containers to store and manage blocks. The general idea is:
# Each block can be treated as an object and the block ID is the object's key.
# Blocks will still be stored in DataNodes but as objects in storage containers.
# The block management work can be separated out of the NameNode and will be handled by the storage container layer in a more distributed way. The NameNode will only manage the namespace (i.e., files and directories).
# For each file, the NameNode only needs to record a list of block IDs which are used as keys to obtain real data from storage containers.
# A new DFSClient implementation talks to both NameNode and the storage
container layer to read/write.

HDFS, especially the NameNode, can get much better scalability from this
design. Currently the NameNode's heaviest workload comes from the block management, which includes maintaining the block-DataNode mapping, receiving full/incremental block reports, tracking block states (under/over/miss replicated), and joining every writing pipeline protocol to guarantee the data consistency. These work bring high memory footprint
and make NameNode suffer from GC. HDFS-5477 already proposes to convert BlockManager as a service. If we can build HDFS on top of the storage container layer, we not only separate out the BlockManager from the NameNode, but also replace it with a new distributed management scheme.

The storage container work is currently in progress in HDFS-7240, and the work proposed here is still in an experimental/exploring stage. We can do this experiment in a feature branch so that people with interests can be involved.

A design doc will be uploaded later explaining more details.



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