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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:05:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jeff Hammerbacher (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (HDFS-1435) Provide an option to store fsimage
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Jeff Hammerbacher commented on HDFS-1435:
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Could we use the Avro file format to store the fsimage? We've designed configurable compression into the format, and tools will automatically be available for inspection of the file.

> 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
>
>
> 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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