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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+<!--
+/**
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+-->
+<configuration>
+
+  <!-- hadoop-2.0.5+'s HDFS-4305 by default enforces a min blocks size
+       of 1024*1024.  Many unit tests that use the hlog use smaller
+       blocks.  Setting this config to 0 to have tests pass -->
+  <property>
+    <name>dfs.namenode.fs-limits.min-block-size</name>
+    <value>0</value>
+  </property>
+</configuration>
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