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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:34:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Doug Cutting (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (HDFS-1435) Provide an option to store fsimage
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Doug Cutting commented on HDFS-1435:
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Hairong, I don' think that using Avro is critical here.  Avro's primarily intended for user data.  Using Avro here could simplify long-term maintenance but short-term might add a significant amount of work.  So I would not file another Jira unless you intend to implement it soon.  Thanks!

> Provide an option to store fsimage compressed
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-1435
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1435
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: name-node
>    Affects Versions: 0.22.0
>            Reporter: Hairong Kuang
>            Assignee: Hairong Kuang
>             Fix For: 0.22.0
>
>         Attachments: trunkImageCompress.patch
>
>
> Our HDFS has fsimage as big as 20G bytes. It consumes a lot of network bandwidth when secondary NN uploads a new fsimage to primary NN.
> If we could store fsimage compressed, the problem could be greatly alleviated.
> I plan to provide a new configuration hdfs.image.compressed with a default value of false. If it is set to be true, fsimage is stored as compressed.
> The fsimage will have a new layout with a new field "compressed" in its header, indicating if the namespace is stored compressed or not.

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