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[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-3637) Support for snapshots

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3637?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12628680#action_12628680 ] 

Hairong Kuang commented on HADOOP-3637:
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Dhruba, in addition to the block replication complexity associated with snapshots as we discussed yesterday, rebalancing a dfs cluster introduces another complexity. A balancer needs to move active blocks as well as inactive blocks. A request for a datanode's partial block map needs to forward to the snap node as well.  

> Support for snapshots
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3637
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3637
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: dfs
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: dhruba borthakur
>         Attachments: Snapshots.pdf, Snapshots.pdf
>
>
> Support HDFS snapshots. It should support creating snapshots without shutting down the file system. Snapshot creation should be lightweight and a typical system should be able to support a few thousands concurrent snapshots. There should be a way to surface (i.e. mount) a few of these snapshots simultaneously.

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