could notify interested clients about major HDFS events (like file creation, deletion, etc), MapReduce job end notification. • [HDFS-2760] talks about adding a PubSub system on HDFS for sending notification messages to clients subscribed to specific services. • [HDFS-7821] talks about an event notification system which – • Provide periodic updates to subscribed users • Provide the capability to let users specify 'interesting events'. • Provide a 'customizable' and 'configurable' interface such that user-defined parameters can also be 'subscribed' by the user.