Kartheek, (Moving to hdfs-user@. Bcc'd common-user@. Please use the right lists for reaching to the proper audience :))
Writing multiple files from a single DFS client instance should not be a problem at all. You get one output stream per file creation, leaving you're free to write to a number of them in parallel and to also expect an amount of gain. On 19-Nov-2011, at 11:26 AM, kartheek muthyala wrote: > Hi all, > I know that while writing the file, a hdfs client writes the blocks in > sequential fashion, writing one block only at one time and when this block > is acknowledged as a complete write then the next block write happens. But > can a hdfs client write two or three files at a same time, ideally it > should do, can i get a confirmation on this? > ~Kartheek
