Implementing Erasure Coding in HDFS: Migration Strategy, Testing Framework, and Data Lifecycle Management
This article details JD's practical experience migrating HDFS to erasure coding, covering the decision between upgrade and porting, the step‑by‑step upgrade and rollback procedures, automated testing, a custom data‑lifecycle management system for hot‑warm‑cold data, and comprehensive data‑integrity safeguards to achieve significant storage cost reductions while maintaining production reliability.