It is a bit off topic, but maprfs is closely equivalent to HDFS except that it provides the read-write and NFS semantics you are looking for.
Trying to shoe-horn HDFS into a job that it wasn't intended to do (i.e. general file I/O) isn't a great idea. Better to use what it is good for. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Stuti Awasthi <stutiawas...@hcl.com>wrote: > This is what I also thought and looking at Mountable HDFS options. I need > to check if its buggy. > To your other ques : I am building an app which will have TBs of data and > require analysis. Now I am using HDFS as a background filesystem and Hbase > for database option. To do analysis on the data, I use MR jobs . > All this is not provided by NFS. One part of this app include document > management in which I wanted to provide version control. This is the > usecase I have. May be this helps. ☺ >
