Hi Aditya, Secondary name node will take a copy of metadata from Primary Namenode at regular intervals.
This is the short of the long story. To know more see the picture and description in the link. https://www.inkling.com/read/hadoop-definitive-guide-tom-white-3rd/chapter-10/hdfs Regards, Pradeep On 1 May 2013 14:12, Aditya exalter <adityaexal...@gmail.com> wrote: > what is the process going through name node and secondary name node in > detail. >