[HADOOP-1595] Add an option to setReplication method to wait for completion of replication

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Assignee: Tsz-wo Sze
• Reporter: Christian Kunz
• Created: 11/Jul/07 20:12
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:42
• Resolved: 13/Aug/07 22:37

Description

Currently setReplication requested by a client returns immediately, without waiting for completion of replication. There are situations where the client would like to know when the replication is actually done.
This option should be available in fs shell and libhdfs (see HADOOP-1551).