Hi, I found http://hadoopblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/hdfs-block-replica-placement-in-your.html explains the process nicely.
The first replica of each block will be stored on the client machine, if it's a datanode itself. Makes sense, as it doesn't require a network transfer. Otherwise, a random datanode will be picked for the first replica. The second replica will be written to a random datanode on a random rack other than the rack where the first replica is stored. Here, HDFS's rack awareness will be utilized. So HDFS would survive a rack failure. The second replica will be written to the same rack as the second replica, but another random datanode in that rack. That will make the pipeline between second and third replica quick. Does that make sense to you? However, this is the current hard coded policy, there's ideas to make that policy customizable (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-385). Kai Am 18.04.2011 um 15:46 schrieb Nan Zhu: > Hi, all > > I'm confused by a question that "how does the HDFS decide where to put the > data blocks " > > I mean that the user invokes some commands like "./hadoop put ***", we > assume that this file consistes of 3 blocks, but how HDFS decides where > these 3 blocks to be put? > > Most of the materials don't involve this issue, but just introduce the data > replica where talking about blocks in HDFS, > > can anyone give me some instructions? > > Thanks > > Nan > > -- > Nan Zhu > School of Software,5501 > Shanghai Jiao Tong University > 800,Dongchuan Road,Shanghai,China > E-Mail: zhunans...@gmail.com -- Kai Voigt k...@123.org
