+1 Hadoop still calls it a copy of a block if you have replication factor of 1. Why not?
(for that matter, I still call it an integer if it has a value of 1) On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Andrzej Bialecki <a...@getopt.org> wrote: > I originally started off with "replica" too... but there may only be >> one copy of a physical shard, it seemed strange to call it a replica. >> > > Yeah .. it's a replica with a replication factor of 1 :) -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve