thanks mohammad i ran the below command on NameNode $ ./hadoop dfs -mkdir /wksp
and the "wksp" dir got created in c:\ ( as i have windows environment) now , when i log in to one of the DataNode , then i am not able to see c:\wksp any issue ? please suggest regards On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> >