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Type:
Sub-task
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Status: Resolved
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: balancer & mover, namenode
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Labels:None
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Hadoop Flags:Reviewed
The tool is similar to Balancer. It periodic scans the blocks in HDFS and uses path and/or other meta data (e.g. mtime) to determine if a block should be cooled down (i.e. hot => warm, or warm => cold) or warmed up (i.e. cold => warm, or warm => hot). In contrast to Balancer, the migration tool always move replicas to a different storage type. Similar to Balancer, the replicas are moved in a way that the number of racks the block does not decrease.