RE: HDFS performance with an without replication

2013-09-19 Thread John Lilley
Thanks, that makes sense. john -Original Message- From: Harsh J [mailto:ha...@cloudera.com] Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 12:39 PM To: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: HDFS performance with an without replication Write performance improves with lesser replicas (as a result

Re: HDFS performance with an without replication

2013-09-15 Thread Harsh J
Write performance improves with lesser replicas (as a result of synchronous and sequenced write pipelines in HDFS). Reads would be the same, unless you're unable to schedule a rack-local read (at worst case) due to only one (busy) rack holding it. On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:38 PM, John Lilley