Hi,
I have a couple of questions about the process of uploading a large file (>
10GB) to HDFS.
To make sure my understanding is correct, assuming I have a cluster of N
machines.
- What happens in the following:
Case 1:
assuming i want to uppload a file (input.txt) of size K GBs
that resides on the local disk of machine 1 (which happens to be the
namenode only). if I am running the command -put input.txt {some hdfs dir}
from the namenode (assuming it does not play the datanode role), then will
the namenode read the first 64MB in a temporary pipe and then transfers it
to one of the cluster datanodes once finished? Or the namenode does not do
any reading of the file, but rather asks a certain datanode to read the
64MB window from the file remotely?
Case 2:
assume machine 1 is the namenode, but i run the -put command
from machine 3 (which is a datanode). who will start reading the file?
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Best Regards,
Karim Ahmed Awara
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