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Hadoop 2.x Administration Cookbook
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Hadoop 2.x Administration Cookbook

by Aman Singh
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
7h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Namenode HA using shared storage

In Hadoop, we do not recommend NAS or SAN as storage for Datanodes, as it defeats the purpose of localized data. However, for critical components such as Namenode, there will be a storage mount point to store Namenode metadata. This is specified as a comma-separated list under the dfs.namenode.name.dir parameter.

For Namenode High Availability (HA), we need a shared location to store metadata, which can be accessed from both Namenodes. Only primary or active Namenodes can write to the shared location, but both Namenodes can read from it.

The active Namenode is the writer and the standby node is the reader node only. Namenode can failover from one node to another, but only one node can be Active at any given time. ...

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ISBN: 9781787126732