[HADOOP-574] want FileSystem implementation for Amazon S3

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: fs
• Assignee: Thomas White
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 04/Oct/06 20:44
• Updated: 25/Jul/16 17:21
• Resolved: 14/Dec/06 02:13

Description

An S3-based Hadoop FileSystem would make a great addition to Hadoop.

It would facillitate use of Hadoop on Amazon's EC2 computing grid, as discussed here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg00318.html

This is related to HADOOP-571, which would make Hadoop's FileSystem considerably easier to extend.

Issue Links

• depends upon: HADOOP-571 Path should use URI syntax
• is related to: HADOOP-727 Hadoop should include a general purpose distributed lock manager