3. Hadoop Distributed File System Basics

In This Chapter:

Image The design and operation of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) are presented.

Image Important HDFS topics such as block replication, Safe Mode, rack awareness, High Availability, Federation, backup, snapshots, NFS mounting, and the HDFS web GUI are discussed.

Image Examples of basic HDFS user commands are provided.

HDFS programming examples using Java and C are provided.

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