HDFS data after nodes become unavailable?

2015-02-25 Thread tesm...@gmail.com
Dear all, I have transferred the data from local storage to HDFS in my 10 nodes Hadoop cluster. The relication facotr is 3. Some nodes, say 3, are not available after some time. I can't use those nodes for computation or storage of data. What will happen to the data stored on HDFS of those

Re: HDFS data after nodes become unavailable?

2015-02-25 Thread Rajesh Kartha
Do you know why the 3 nodes are down ? With replication, the copy of data that were hosted on those failed nodes will not be available. However, the data will still be served by the hosts having the other 2 copies - so I don't think you need to copy the data again. Unless for some reason the 3