[KUDU-785] Allow setting cfile block size on a per-column basis

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Private Beta
• Component/s: cfile, client
• Target Version/s: Public beta
• Code Review: http://gerrit.sjc.cloudera.com:8080/#/c/7791/
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 21/May/15 16:10
• Updated: 03/Sep/15 22:31
• Resolved: 03/Sep/15 22:31

Description

For applications that do a lot more random access, a small cfile block size is better than the large one. Currently we can only set this on a per-server default basis. This should be part of the ColumnStorageAttributes.