RE: HDFS without Hadoop: Why?

2011-02-02 Thread Dhodapkar, Chinmay
at works for you.. Take care, -stu --- On Wed, 2/2/11, Dhodapkar, Chinmay wrote: From: Dhodapkar, Chinmay Subject: RE: HDFS without Hadoop: Why? To: "hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org" Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 7:28 PM Hello, I have been following this thread for some ti

RE: HDFS without Hadoop: Why?

2011-02-02 Thread Dhodapkar, Chinmay
Hello, I have been following this thread for some time now. I am very comfortable with the advantages of hdfs, but still have lingering questions about the usage of hdfs for general purpose storage (no mapreduce/hbase etc). Can somebody shed light on what the limitations are on the number of fi