BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-6581 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS

    HDFS-6921. Add LazyPersist flag to FileStatus. (Arpit Agarwal)

    HDFS-6924. Add new RAM_DISK storage type. (Arpit Agarwal)

    HDFS-6922. Add LazyPersist flag to INodeFile, save it in FsImage and
    edit logs. (Arpit Agarwal)
  
    HDFS-6923. Propagate LazyPersist flag to DNs via DataTransferProtocol.
    (Arpit Agarwal)

    HDFS-6925. DataNode should attempt to place replicas on transient storage
    first if lazyPersist flag is received. (Arpit Agarwal)

    HDFS-6926. DN support for saving replicas to persistent storage and
    evicting in-memory replicas. (Arpit Agarwal)

    HDFS-6927. Initial unit tests for lazy persist files. (Arpit Agarwal)

    HDFS-6929. NN periodically unlinks lazy persist files with missing
    replicas from namespace. (Arpit Agarwal)

    HDFS-6928. 'hdfs put' command should accept lazyPersist flag for testing.
    (Arpit Agarwal)

    HDFS-6960. Bugfix in LazyWriter, fix test case and some refactoring.
    (Arpit Agarwal)

    HDFS-6931. Move lazily persisted replicas to finalized directory on DN
    startup. (Arpit Agarwal)