I don't know whether this will work or not.. but you can give it a shot..(I am assuming you are having 8 nodes as hadoop cluster)
1. Mount 1 TB hard disk to one of the DN. 2. Put it to HDFS. I think once its on HDFS.. it will automatically gets distributed. Regards, Praveenesh On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Ondřej Klimpera <klimp...@fit.cvut.cz>wrote: > Hello, > > we're testing application on 8 nodes, where each node has 20GB of local > storage available. What we are trying to achieve is to get more than 20GB > to be processed on this cluster. > > Is there a way how to distribute the data on the cluster? > > There is also one shared NFS storage disk with 1TB of available space, > which is now unused. > > Thanks for your reply. > > Ondrej Klimpera >