[HADOOP-8885] Need to add fs shim to use QFS

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: fs

Release Note

Made Hadoop QFS plugin as part of Quantcast File System open-source project.
Users can download the Hadoop QFS jar + libs and dynamically use it with Hadoop.

• Assignee: thilee
• Reporter: thilee
• Created: 05/Oct/12 17:18
• Updated: 04/Sep/14 01:03
• Resolved: 26/Oct/12 17:23

Description

Quantcast has released QFS 1.0 (http://quantcast.github.com/qfs), a C++ distributed filesystem based on Kosmos File System(KFS). QFS comes with various feature, performance, and stability improvements over KFS.

A hadoop 'fs' shim needs be added to support QFS through 'qfs://' URIs.

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-8886 Remove KFS support