Bharath Mundlapudi presented on Disk Fail Inplace in Hadoop. He discussed how a single disk failure currently causes an entire node to be blacklisted. With newer hardware trends of more disks per node, this wastes significant resources. His team developed a Disk Fail Inplace approach where Hadoop can tolerate disk failures until a threshold. This included separating critical and user files, handling failures at startup and runtime in DataNode and TaskTracker, and rigorous testing of the new approach.