Running Hadoop HDFS
A distributed processing framework wouldn't be complete without distributed storage. One of them is HDFS. Even if Spark is run on local mode, it can still use a distributed file system at the backend. Like Spark breaks computations into subtasks, HDFS breaks a file into blocks and stores them across a set of machines. For HA, HDFS stores multiple copies of each block, the number of copies is called replication level, three by default (refer to Figure 3-5).
NameNode is managing the HDFS storage by remembering the block locations and other metadata such as owner, file permissions, and block size, which are file-specific. Secondary Namenode is a slight misnomer: its function is to merge the metadata modifications, edits, into ...
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