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Cloudera Administration Handbook
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Cloudera Administration Handbook

by Rohit Menon
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
254 pages
5h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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The read/write operational flow in HDFS

To get a better understanding of HDFS, we need to understand the flow of operations for the following two scenarios:

  • A file is written to HDFS
  • A file is read from HDFS

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.

Writing files in HDFS

The following sequence of steps occur when a client tries to write a file to HDFS:

  1. The client informs the namenode daemon that it wants to write a file. The namenode daemon checks to see whether the file already exists.
  2. If it exists, an appropriate message is sent back to the client. ...
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