[HADOOP-3501] deprecate InMemoryFileSystem

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.17.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.0
• Component/s: fs
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Doug Cutting
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 05/Jun/08 16:47
• Updated: 13/Jan/11 04:52
• Resolved: 06/Jun/08 20:14

Description

As of HADOOP-2095, InMemoryFileSystem is no longer used. Its design was optimized for a particular application and it is thus not a good general-purpose RAM-based FileSystem implementation, so it ought to be removed.

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-7102 Remove "fs.ramfs.impl" field from core-deafult.xml