Victor: I think in your use case the best way to move the data into hadoop would either be to tar it up and move it to the same network the HDFS machines are on, untar it and then run...
hadoop dfs -put /contents-path /dfs-path If you only want a replication factor of 2 (the default is 3), open up the hadoop.site.xml file and add this snippet... <property> <name>dfs.replication</name> <value>2</value> </property> -- Jeffrey Payne Lead Software Engineer Eyealike, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.eyealike.com (206) 257-8708 "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing." -H. Lifter On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Victor Samoylov <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use HDFS as DFS to store files. I have one data server with 50Gb > data and I plan to use 3 new machines with installed HDFS to duplicate this > data. > These 3 machines are: 1 name node, 2 data nodes. The duplication factor for > all files is 2. > > My questions are: > 1. How could I create 50 GB data node on one server? Actually I'm very > insteresting with setting 50 GB size for data node. > 2. What is the best way to export all data files from external server (ssh > access) to new ones with HDFS? > > Thanks, > Victor Samoylov >
