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

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