July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
254 pages
5h 24m
English
To get a better understanding of HDFS, we need to understand the flow of operations for the following two scenarios:
HDFS uses a single-write, multiple-read model, where the files are written once and read several times. The data cannot be altered once written. However, data can be appended to the file by reopening it. All files in the HDFS are saved as data blocks.
The following sequence of steps occur when a client tries to write a file to HDFS:
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