Transmission of large files in compressed format will save the network traffic and can improve the data transfer time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-1640 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1640 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Improvement Components: data-node, hdfs client Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G *In Write scenario:* DFSClient can Compress the data when transmitting it over the network, Data Nodes can forward the same compressed data to other Data Nodes in pipeline and as well as it can decompress that data and write on to their local disks. *In Read Scenario:* Data Node can compress the data when transmitting it over the network. DFSClient can decompress it and write on to the local stream. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira