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Posted to common-dev@hadoop.apache.org by "alan wootton (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2006/05/26 03:37:30 UTC
[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-50) dfs datanode should store blocks in
multiple directories
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-50?page=comments#action_12413330 ]
alan wootton commented on HADOOP-50:
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+1
I didn't look at the patch, but I carefully read the commented out code. I vote yes. (is it already in? - close this issue).
> dfs datanode should store blocks in multiple directories
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-50
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-50
> Project: Hadoop
> Type: Bug
> Components: dfs
> Versions: 0.2
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Assignee: Mike Cafarella
> Fix For: 0.3
> Attachments: hadoop.50.patch.1
>
> The datanode currently stores all file blocks in a single directory. With 32MB blocks and terabyte filesystems, this will create too many files in a single directory for many filesystems. Thus blocks should be stored in multiple directories, perhaps even a shallow hierarchy.
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