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[jira] Commented: (HDFS-503) Implement erasure coding as a layer on HDFS

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Celina d´ Ávila Samogin commented on HDFS-503:
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I have to intend to propose something  about implementation of erasure coding techniques in HDFS, starting in July, 2010. I will add a comment for to say what I'm doing or ask for hints, soon as possible. For now, I have studied the texts suggested in this issue and others papers. I have read about RS codes and LDPC codes. I have not even started to implement and did not even start the test.

> Implement erasure coding as a layer on HDFS
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-503
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-503
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: contrib/raid
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: dhruba borthakur
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
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>         Attachments: raid1.txt, raid2.txt
>
>
> The goal of this JIRA is to discuss how the cost of raw storage for a HDFS file system can be reduced. Keeping three copies of the same data is very costly, especially when the size of storage is huge. One idea is to reduce the replication factor and do erasure coding of a set of blocks so that the over probability of failure of a block remains the same as before.
> Many forms of error-correcting codes are available, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_code. Also, recent research from CMU has described DiskReduce https://opencirrus.org/system/files/Gibson-OpenCirrus-June9-09.ppt.
> My opinion is to discuss implementation strategies that are not part of base HDFS, but is a layer on top of HDFS.

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