Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-24 Thread suresh srinivas
> > But this does make things easier. Although I'm still fairly > confident that it adds too much complexity for little gain though. Allen,can you please add details on what complexity you are talking about here? (I have already asked this question many times) >From code perspective it

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-24 Thread suresh srinivas
> > > A few questions: > - Do we have a clear definition for a cluster? > Cluster before federation is defined by list of datanodes in include file, bound together by namespaceID of the namenode that these nodes bind to on first registration with the namenode. In essence, namespaceID defines the

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-22 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Mar 21, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Sanjay Radia wrote: > > Allen, not sure if I explained the difference above. > Base on the discussion we had at the Hug, I want to clarify a few things Thanks for taking the time at HUG. (I've since figured out that I lost your messages as part of my email

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-21 Thread Brian Bockelman
On Mar 21, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Sanjay Radia wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Sanjay Radia wrote: > >> >> On Mar 12, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: >> >>> >>> To me, this series of changes looks like it is going to make >>> running a grid much much harder for very little

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-21 Thread Sanjay Radia
On Mar 14, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Sanjay Radia wrote: On Mar 12, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: To me, this series of changes looks like it is going to make running a grid much much harder for very little benefit. In particular, I don't see the difference between running mul

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-16 Thread suresh srinivas
> Namenode code is not changed at all. Want to make sure I qualify this right. The change is not significant, other than notion of BPID that the NN uses is added.

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-16 Thread suresh srinivas
That is a different motivation. The document talks about why you should use > federation. I am asking about motivation of supporting the code base while > not using it. At least this is how understand Allen's question and some of > my colleagues'. > Namenode code is not changed at all. Datanode co

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-16 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:19 PM, suresh srinivas wrote: > Thanks for starting off the discussion. > > > This is a huge new feature with 86 jiras already filed, which > substantially increases the complexity of the code base. > These are 86 jiras file in a feature branch. We decided to make these

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-14 Thread suresh srinivas
Thanks for starting off the discussion. > This is a huge new feature with 86 jiras already filed, which substantially increases the complexity of the code base. These are 86 jiras file in a feature branch. We decided to make these changes, in smaller increments, instead of a jumbo patch. This was

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-14 Thread Travis Crawford
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Konstantin Shvachko wrote: > Dhruba, good you are speaking up for federation. > I consider it important as it means more support for the feature in the > future. > > The purpose of my reply was to get this discussion going, as I found Allens > question unanswered f

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-14 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
Dhruba, good you are speaking up for federation. I consider it important as it means more support for the feature in the future. The purpose of my reply was to get this discussion going, as I found Allens question unanswered for 2 weeks. The concern he has seems legitimate to me. If ops think fede

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-14 Thread Sanjay Radia
On Mar 12, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Suresh Srinivas wrote: We have started pushing changes for namenode federation in to the feature branch HDFS-1052. The work items are created as subtask of the jira HDFS-1052 and are based on the design docum

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-14 Thread Dhruba Borthakur
Hi folks, The design for the federation work has been a published and there is a very well-written design document. It explains the pros-and-cons of each design point. It would be nice if more people can review this document and provide comments on how to make it better. The implementation is in p

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-14 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
Allen is right. This is a huge new feature with 86 jiras already filed, which substantially increases the complexity of the code base. Having an in-depth motivation and benchmarking will be needed before the community decides on adopting it for support. Thanks, --Konstantin On Sat, Mar 12, 2011

Re: Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-12 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Mar 3, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Suresh Srinivas wrote: > We have started pushing changes for namenode federation in to the feature > branch HDFS-1052. The work items are created as subtask of the jira HDFS-1052 > and are based on the design document published in the same jira. By the end > of this

Merging Namenode Federation feature (HDFS-1052) to trunk

2011-03-03 Thread Suresh Srinivas
We have started pushing changes for namenode federation in to the feature branch HDFS-1052. The work items are created as subtask of the jira HDFS-1052 and are based on the design document published in the same jira. By the end of this week, we will complete pushing the changes to HDFS-1052 bran