Suresh Srinivas created HDFS-3689: ------------------------------------- Summary: Add support for variable length block Key: HDFS-3689 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3689 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: New Feature Components: data-node, hdfs client, name-node Affects Versions: 3.0.0 Reporter: Suresh Srinivas Assignee: Suresh Srinivas
Currently HDFS supports fixed length blocks. Supporting variable length block will allow new use cases and features to be built on top of HDFS. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira