Yes. Just your "FAT" is consumed. Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the typos.
On 2011-03-12, at 11:04 AM, Florin Picioroaga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > I've been reading in the "Hadoop Definitive guide" by Tom White > about the block emptiness when a file is not large enough to occupy the full > size of the block. > > From the statement (cite from the book) > "Unlike a filesystem for a single disk, a file in HDFS that is smaller than a > single block does not occupy a full block’s worth of underlying storage." I > can understand the physical space left from the initial block size will be > free. My question is can the underlying operating reuse/write this remained > free space? > I'll look forward for your answers. > Thank you, > Florin > > > >
