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From: Andrew Wang <andrew.wang@cloudera.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:38:41 -0800
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Subject: Re: Dose hdfs support the configuration that different blocks can
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Hi Lipeng,

Right now that is unsupported, replication is set on a per-file basis, not
per-block.

Andrew

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Lipeng Wan <lipengwan86@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> By default, hdfs creates same number of replicas for each block. Is it
> possible for us to create more replicas for some of the blocks?
> Thanks!
>
> L. W.
>

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