So, the upload process(from local file system to HDFS) will store all
blocks(split from the dataset, 
said M split blocks) into a single node(depend on which client you put), not
to all datanodes. 
And the "replication" means to replicate to N clients(if replication=N) and
each client owns
a completed/all M blocks. If I am wrong, please correct it. Thanks.

ChaoChun


Stu Hood-2 wrote:
> 
> ChaoChun,
> 
> Since you set the 'replication = 1' for the file, only 1 copy of the
> file's blocks will be stored in Hadoop. If you want all 5 machines to have
> copies of each block, then you would set 'replication = 5' for the file.
> 
> The default for replication is 3.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stu
> 
> 

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