Thanks Eric. I found this out simply from viewing blocks and their locations in UI (maybe some commands will also report this, forgot which one).
Best regards, Michael --- On Wed, 4/21/10, Eric Sammer <[email protected]> wrote: From: Eric Sammer <[email protected]> Subject: Re: confusion about dfs.replication To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:20 PM Just N copies. There's no notion of the "original" copy of the data. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:19 PM, jiang licht <[email protected]> wrote: > A trivial question. So, here it is: according to the hadoop documentation, > "dfs.replication" defines the number of replications of a block. So, if > "dfs.replication" is set to N, then that means each file has actually > (N+1) copies. Is this correct? > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > -- Eric Sammer phone: +1-917-287-2675 twitter: esammer data: www.cloudera.com
