If you mean, can both copies of the blocks be used for computations? yes they can.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Marius Soutier <mps....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > just a quick question about calling persist with the _2 option. Is the 2x > replication only useful for fault tolerance, or will it also increase job > speed by avoiding network transfers? Assuming I’m doing joins or other > shuffle operations. > > Thanks > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org