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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:08:53 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Suresh Srinivas (Commented) (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HDFS-2115) Transparent compression in HDFS
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Suresh Srinivas commented on HDFS-2115:
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Todd, given how this functionality shapes up, it could make lot of changes to HDFS. Please post a design document, when the mechanism is in reasonable shape.
                
> Transparent compression in HDFS
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-2115
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2115
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: data-node, hdfs client
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>
> In practice, we find that a lot of users store text data in HDFS without using any compression codec. Improving usability of compressible formats like Avro/RCFile helps with this, but we could also help many users by providing an option to transparently compress data as it is stored.

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