[HDFS-11510] Revamp erasure coding user documentation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha4
• Component/s: documentation
• Labels: hdfs-ec-3.0-nice-to-have
• Target Version/s: 3.4.0
• Assignee: Andrew Wang
• Reporter: Andrew Wang
• Created: 08/Mar/17 02:29
• Updated: 09/Apr/20 18:47

Description

After we finish more of the must-do EC changes targeted for 3.0, it'd be good to take a fresh look at the EC documentation to make sure it's comprehensive, particularly how to choose a good erasure coding policy for your cluster and how to enable policies.

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-14297 Update the documentation about the new ec codecs config keys