Hello Irfan, You can find all the answers from HDFS architecture guide<http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hdfs_design.html>. See the section Data Organization<http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hdfs_design.html#Data+Organization>in particular for this question.
Warm Regards, Tariq cloudfront.blogspot.com On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Irfan Sayed <irfu.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > i have setup the two node apache hadoop cluster on windows environment > one is namenode and another is datanode > > everything is working fine. > one thing which i need to know is , how the replication starts > if i create a.txt in namenode , how it will be appeared in datanodes > > please suggest > > regards > >