Re: [VOTE -- Round 2] Commit hdfs-630 to 0.21?

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Purtell
+1 This makes an observed big difference for stability of small/test clusters. I second Ryan's specific point about stability of small clusters being important. - Andy On Thu Jan 21st, 2010 2:46 PM PST Ryan Rawson wrote: >Scaling _down_ is a continual problem for us, and this is one of

Re: [VOTE -- Round 2] Commit hdfs-630 to 0.21?

2010-01-21 Thread Mahadev Konar
+1 mahadev On 1/21/10 2:46 PM, "Ryan Rawson" wrote: > Scaling _down_ is a continual problem for us, and this is one of the > prime factors. It puts a bad taste in the mouth of new people who then > run away from HBase and HDFS since it is "unreliable and unstable". It > is perfectly within sco

Re: [VOTE -- Round 2] Commit hdfs-630 to 0.21?

2010-01-21 Thread Eli Collins
+1 On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Tsz Wo (Nicholas), Sze wrote: > +1 > Nicholas Sze > > > > > - Original Message >> From: Stack >> To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org >> Cc: HBase Dev List >> Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 2:36:25 PM >> Subject: [VOTE -- Round 2] Commit hdfs-630 to 0.21? >>

Re: [VOTE -- Round 2] Commit hdfs-630 to 0.21?

2010-01-21 Thread Ryan Rawson
Scaling _down_ is a continual problem for us, and this is one of the prime factors. It puts a bad taste in the mouth of new people who then run away from HBase and HDFS since it is "unreliable and unstable". It is perfectly within scope to support a cluster of about 5-6 machines which can have an a

Re: [VOTE -- Round 2] Commit hdfs-630 to 0.21?

2010-01-21 Thread Tsz Wo (Nicholas), Sze
+1 Nicholas Sze - Original Message > From: Stack > To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Cc: HBase Dev List > Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 2:36:25 PM > Subject: [VOTE -- Round 2] Commit hdfs-630 to 0.21? > > I'd like to propose a new vote on having hdfs-630 committed to 0.21. > The first

[VOTE -- Round 2] Commit hdfs-630 to 0.21?

2010-01-21 Thread Stack
I'd like to propose a new vote on having hdfs-630 committed to 0.21. The first vote on this topic, initiated 12/14/2009, was sunk by Tsz Wo (Nicholas), Sze suggested improvements. Those suggestions have since been folded into a new version of the hdfs-630 patch.  Its this new version of the patch -

Re: Synchronization problem in FSNameSystemMetrics

2010-01-21 Thread Todd Lipcon
Hi Zlatin, I agree that this access is unsynchronized and thus can be stale. Looking at the implementation of HashMap.size, it doesn't need to do anything except copy a single int, so it shouldn't be a cause for any errors beyond stale data (ie it can't throw a ConcurrentModificationException). I