On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Foss User <foss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Ravi Phulari <rphul...@yahoo-inc.com> > wrote: > > If you have hadoop superuser/administrative permissions you can use fsck > > with correct options to view block report and locations for every block. > > > > For further information please refer - > > http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/r0.20.0/commands_manual.html#fsck > > > > Thanks for the response. What about the Hadoop namenode web interface: > > http://hadoop-slave:50075/browseDirectory.jsp?dir=%2Fuser%2Fhadoop&namenodeInfoPort=50070 > > Note that this URL is that of a slave machine called hadoop-slave and > I am trying to view details of /user/hadoop. If I view this URL, and > click some files, would it show me the complete file in the cluster or > only those portions (blocks) of the file which are on this particular > slave data node? It'll send you to a data node which has at least one block, and that data node will proxy other blocks. So, you'll see the complete file. -- Philip