Hi Raghu, You might want to check out the work that's been done over at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-347.
-- Aaron T. Myers Software Engineer, Cloudera On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Raghu Reddy <rre...@psc.edu> wrote: > Currently I'm experimenting with version 0.20. > > I would like to modify it so that it uses Unix Domain Sockets instead of > INET sockets because we will be using this on a single node with a large > number of cores. > > I would like to use junixsockets 1.3 implementation of AFUNIXSocket in > place of INET sockets. > > The first question is is this possible? > > For the clients, it appears that one can provide a socket factory that > returns AFUNIXSocket. The problem seems to be to get the servers to use a > different implementation because the servers are using > ServerSocketChannels, and according to: > > <http://docs.oracle.com/**javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/** > channels/ServerSocketChannel.**html<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/channels/ServerSocketChannel.html> > > > > it is not possible to specify SocketImpl. > > I have tried to use ServerSocket.setSocketFactory(**) to try and set a > different implementation, but I have not yet figured out if this is working > or not. > > Does anyone have any idea if this is supposed to work? Is there a better > way of accomplishing this? > > Thanks! > > --rr >
