You cannot physically see the HDFS files and directories through local FS. Either use HDFS shell or HDFS webUI(namenode_machine:50070).
Warm Regards, Tariq cloudfront.blogspot.com On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Irfan Sayed <irfu.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> >
