BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-2832 ENABLE SUPPORT FOR HETEROGENEOUS STORAGES IN HDFS IMPROVEMENTS: HDFS-4985. Add storage type to the protocol and expose it in block report and block locations. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5115. Make StorageID a UUID. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5000. DataNode configuration should allow specifying storage type. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-4987. Namenode changes to track multiple storages per datanode. (szetszwo) HDFS-5154. Fix TestBlockManager and TestDatanodeDescriptor after HDFS-4987. (Junping Du via szetszwo) HDFS-5009. Include storage information in the LocatedBlock. (szetszwo) HDFS-5134. Move blockContentsStale, heartbeatedSinceFailover and firstBlockReport from DatanodeDescriptor to DatanodeStorageInfo; and fix a synchronization problem in DatanodeStorageInfo. (szetszwo) HDFS-5157. Add StorageType to FsVolume. (Junping Du via szetszwo) HDFS-4990. Change BlockPlacementPolicy to choose storages instead of datanodes. (szetszwo) HDFS-5232. Protocol changes to transmit StorageUuid. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5233. Use Datanode UUID to identify Datanodes. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5222. Move block schedule information from DatanodeDescriptor to DatanodeStorageInfo. (szetszwo) HDFS-4988. Datanode must support all the volumes as individual storages. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5377. Heartbeats from Datandode should include one storage report per storage directory. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5398. NameNode changes to process storage reports per storage directory. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5390. Send one incremental block report per storage directory. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5401. Fix NPE in Directory Scanner. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5417. Fix storage IDs in PBHelper and UpgradeUtilities. (szetszwo) HDFS-5214. Fix NPEs in BlockManager and DirectoryScanner. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5435. File append fails to initialize storageIDs. (Junping Du via Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5437. Fix TestBlockReport and TestBPOfferService failures. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5447. Fix TestJspHelper. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5452. Fix TestReplicationPolicy and TestBlocksScheduledCounter. HDFS-5448. Datanode should generate its ID on first registration. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5448. Fix break caused by previous checkin for HDFS-5448. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5455. NN should update storageMap on first heartbeat. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5457. Fix TestDatanodeRegistration, TestFsck and TestAddBlockRetry. (Contributed by szetszwo) HDFS-5466. Update storage IDs when the pipeline is updated. (Contributed by szetszwo) HDFS-5439. Fix TestPendingReplication. (Contributed by Junping Du, Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5470. Add back trunk's reportDiff algorithm to the branch. (Contributed by szetszwo) HDFS-5472. Fix TestDatanodeManager, TestSafeMode and TestNNThroughputBenchmark (Contributed by szetszwo) HDFS-5475. NN incorrectly tracks more than one replica per DN. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5481. Fix TestDataNodeVolumeFailure in branch HDFS-2832. (Contributed by Junping Du) HDFS-5480. Update Balancer for HDFS-2832. (Contributed by szetszwo) HDFS-5486. Fix TestNameNodeMetrics for HDFS-2832. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5491. Update editsStored for HDFS-2832. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5494. Fix findbugs warnings for HDFS-2832. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5508. Fix compilation error after merge. (Contributed by szetszwo) HDFS-5501. Fix pendingReceivedRequests tracking in BPServiceActor. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5510. Fix a findbug warning in DataStorage.java on HDFS-2832 branch. (Junping Du via Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5515. Fix TestDFSStartupVersions for HDFS-2832. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5527. Fix TestUnderReplicatedBlocks on branch HDFS-2832. (Arpit Agarwal) HDFS-5547. Fix build break after merge from trunk to HDFS-2832. (Arpit Agarwal)