Re: Changing where HDFS stores its data

2012-06-18 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
In hdfs-site.xml you should specify dfs.namenode.name.dir for NameNode stoareg directories or / and dfs.datanode.data.dir for DataNode storage Changing temporary directory location changes the default for storage directories. Which should also work. You might want to check the message the NameNode

Re: HDFS without Hadoop: Why?

2011-02-03 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
Nathan, Great references. There is a good place to put them to: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HDFS_Publications GPFS and Lustre papers are not there yet, I believe. Thanks, --Konstantin On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Nathan Rutman wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Konstantin Sh

Re: HDFS without Hadoop: Why?

2011-02-02 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
Thanks for the link Stu. More details are on limitations are here: http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2010-04/openpdfs/shvachko.pdf I think that Nathan raised an interesting question and his assessment of HDFS use cases are generally right. Some assumptions though are outdated at this point.

Re: [jira] Commented: (HADOOP-4539) Streaming Edits to a Backup Node.

2010-12-17 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
ase help me with this > ? > > > Streaming Edits to a Backup Node. > > - > > > > Key: HADOOP-4539 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4539 > > Project: Hadoop Common > > I

Re: atime for a directory

2010-11-11 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
Yes HDFS supports aTime only for files. Support for directories would be too expensive. Thanks, --Konstantin On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Vivekanand Vellanki wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at the test cases for HDFS and found the following test > - org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.TestSetTimes.testTim

Re: Question about HDFS Architecture

2009-08-24 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
(i.e., contacting a data node but the data node does not have that particular file anymore)? Thanks, Harold --- On Mon, 8/24/09, Konstantin Shvachko wrote: From: Konstantin Shvachko Subject: Re: Question about HDFS Architecture To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 9

Re: Question about HDFS Architecture

2009-08-24 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
Harold, Both answers by Aaron were incorrect. > Does the client cache this information, or does it always talk to the namenode first? Yes, the client caches replica locations received from the name-node. On open() it receives locations of the first 10 blocks of the file. In most cases these ar

Re: HDFS and cygwin

2009-08-06 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
>> The Hadoop FAQ claims that one can run Hadoop in just the Windows command prompt. Which FAQ do you read? This one http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/FAQ#2 says "Windows requires the installation of Cygwin" --Konstantin Aaron Kimball wrote: Hadoop requires a reasonable cygwin environment. bash,