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Posted to hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org by Thanh Do <th...@cs.wisc.edu> on 2010/10/28 22:45:33 UTC

HDFS block deleting policy

Hi all,

Can some body tell me what is the block deleting
policies/mechanism in HDFS? or point me to the
source files where i can look it up.

It this some what similar to the garbage collection
technique describe in The Google File System papers.

Thanks
Thanh