Re: Symbolic links disablement

2014-12-31 Thread Ananth Gundabattula
this kind of > problem before enabling symlinks. > > You can see a list of all these issues and more at: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10019. > > best, > Colin > > On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Ananth Gundabattula > wrote: > > Hello All, &

Symbolic links disablement

2014-12-25 Thread Ananth Gundabattula
Hello All, Happy holidays. I was wondering if Symbolic links would be re-enabled anytime in the near future ? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10020 I am using CDH VM and the moment I try to use the FileContext.createSymlink() I get an error stating " Symbolic links not supported" m

Re: Controlling the block placement and the file placement in HDFS writes

2014-12-19 Thread Ananth Gundabattula
Hello Zhe, Thanks a lot for the inputs. Storage policies is really what I was looking for one of the problems. @Nick: I agree that it would be a nice feature to have. Thanks for the info. Regards, Ananth On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Nick Dimiduk wrote: > HBase would enjoy a similar funct

Controlling the block placement and the file placement in HDFS writes

2014-12-15 Thread Ananth Gundabattula
Hello All, I was wondering if the following issues can be solved by extending hdfs classes with custom implementations if possible. Here are my requirements : 1. Is there a way to control that all file blocks belonging to a particular hdfs directory & file go to the same physical datanode ( an