Eli, To clarify a little bit, I think HDFS-3120 is the right thing to do, to disable appends, while still enabling hsync in branch-1.
But, going forward, (say 0.23+) having appends working correctly will definitely add value, and make HDFS more palatable for lots of other workloads. Of course, I have a vested interest in this, because our team is working on a project that requires append and truncate, and we will be testing it thoroughly at scale in Q2 this year. Would it be okay to wait for the results of this testing ? Thanks, - milind --- Milind Bhandarkar Greenplum Labs, EMC (Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this email are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views of any organization, past or present, the author might be affiliated with.)
