Yea I know I can use a nas or San. I am not really asking about this as a use case on what the best way way to do it is but rather what the best way to do use hdfs is it was decided that hdfs WAS the fileasystem you were going to use to serve lots of small files.
sent from my nexus one On Jul 6, 2010 3:43 PM, "Patrick Angeles" <[email protected]> wrote: If all you want is dumb storage for small-ish files, you can always just use NAS or SAN. For the MP3 example, you might want to consider HBase... you can store associated meta-data in column families. On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Ananth Sarathy <[email protected]>wrote: > So I am aware of the problem with small files > and I have read this article > > http://www.cloud...
