On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Chandrasekar <chandruseka...@gmail.com>wrote:
> In which file should i specify all this information about > nameservices and the list of namenodes? > hdfs-site.xml is the appropriate place, since it is hdfs-specific configuration. If there are multiple namenodes, then which one should i specify in > core-site.xml as fs.defaultFS? > core-site.xml is the right place for fs.defaultFS. Given you have multiple namespaces from in federation setup, fs.defaultFS should point to ViewFileSystem for a unified view of the namespaces to the clients. There is an open bug HDFS-2558 to track this. I will get to this as soon as I can. Regards, Suresh