RE: porting HDFS to Zookeeper??

[Mahadev Konar <ma...@yahoo-inc.com>]

The radical approach was from zookeeper dev team :). Mostly the
discussion around using zookeeper is to be able to mount different
namespaces on a single tree. 

Mahadev

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sangmin Lee [mailto:sangmin.dev@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:44 PM
> To: core-dev@hadoop.apache.org
> Subject: Re: porting HDFS to Zookeeper??
> 
> Was that from HDFS developers? and could you let me know how serious
that
> plans was?
> Thanks,
> 
> -sangmin
> 
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Doug Cutting <cu...@apache.org>
wrote:
> 
> > Sangmin Lee wrote:
> >
> >> I heard that there was a plans to porting HDFS to Zookeeper to get
a
> high
> >> availability.
> >> Is this true?
> >> If so, could anyone let me know about the status of this effort?
> >>
> >
> > I have heard folks talk of this, but have heard of no concrete plans
> yet.
> >  The radical approach would be to replace the namenode entirely with
> > Zookeeper.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >