Your thought is correct. If space is available locally, then it is automatically stored locally.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Lukas Kairies <lukas.xtree...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I am a bit confused about the block placement in Hadoop. Assume that there > is no replication and a task (map or reduce) writes a file to HDFS, will be > all blocks stored on the same local node (the node on which the task runs)? > I think yes but I am node sure. > > Kind Regards, > Lukas Kairies -- Harsh J
