Hi Cesar, Have you taken a look at http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/GettingStartedWithHadoop ? It explains stuff on setting up config for installing HDFS and map reduce. Regards Mahadev
> -----Original Message----- > From: Cesar Delgado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Hadoop as a filesystem > > Hello to all. > > I'm interested in using Hadoop as a large distributed filesystem. Right > now I'm not very interested in the Map/Reduce features. I've been > trying to find examples of what would be needed to: > > 1) Setup Hadoop running as a filesystem on 1 or more machines. Not as > the OS filesystem for that machine, just running on a machine. I can > set it up on 1 and them more from there once I grasp the configuration a > little better. > 2) An easy example of writing a string to a file on Hadoop and then > reading it back. I've looked though the API and the examples but can't > seem to find a place to start. All the examples seem to be more of the > Map/Reduce type of example. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > -Cesar
