In my understanding, the max number of files stored in the HDFS should be <MEM of namenode>/sizeof(inode struct). This max number of HDFS files should be no smaller than max files a datanode can hold.
Please feel free to correct me because I'm just beginning learning hadoop. On Dec 23, 2011, at 10:35 AM, bourne1900 wrote: > Hi all, > How many files a datanode can hold? > In my test case, when a datanode save 14million files, the cluster can't work. > > > > > Bourne Adrian Liu adri...@yahoo-inc.com