[HDFS-4256] Backport concatenation of files into a single file to branch-1

• Type: Test
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: namenode
• Target Version/s: 1.2.0
• Assignee: Sanjay Radia
• Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
• Created: 01/Dec/12 18:49
• Updated: 15/May/13 05:15
• Resolved: 14/Jan/13 17:55

Description

HDFS-222 added support concatenation of multiple files in a directory into a single file. This helps several use cases where writes can be parallelized and several folks have expressed in this functionality.

This jira intends to make changes equivalent from HDFS-222 into branch-1 to be made available release 1.2.0.

Issue Links

• is related to: HDFS-222 Support for concatenating of files into a single file
• relates to: HDFS-4296 Add layout version for HDFS-4256 for release 1.2.0