August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
7h 3m
English
Hadoop has the concept of "Rack Awareness". Administrators are able to define the rack of each DataNode in the cluster. Making Hadoop rack-aware is extremely important because:
In this recipe, we will describe how to make Hadoop rack-aware and why it is important.
You will need to know the rack to which each of your slave nodes belongs. Log in to the master node as the user who started Hadoop.
The following steps describe how to make Hadoop rack-aware:
topology.sh script and store it under the Hadoop configuration directory. Change the path for topology.data, in line 3, to fit your ...