Thanks Maneesh. Quick question, does a client really need to know Block size and replication factor - A lot of times client has no control over these (set at cluster level)
-Prashant Kommireddi On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Dejan Menges <dejan.men...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Maneesh, > > Thanks a lot for this! Just distributed it over the team and comments are > great :) > > Best regards, > Dejan > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:28 PM, maneesh varshney <mvarsh...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > For your reading pleasure! > > > > PDF 3.3MB uploaded at (the mailing list has a cap of 1MB attachments): > > > > > https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-zw6KHOtbT4MmRkZWJjYzEtYjI3Ni00NTFjLWE0OGItYTU5OGMxYjc0N2M1 > > > > > > Appreciate if you can spare some time to peruse this little experiment of > > mine to use Comics as a medium to explain computer science topics. This > > particular issue explains the protocols and internals of HDFS. > > > > I am eager to hear your opinions on the usefulness of this visual medium > to > > teach complex protocols and algorithms. > > > > [My personal motivations: I have always found text descriptions to be too > > verbose as lot of effort is spent putting the concepts in proper > time-space > > context (which can be easily avoided in a visual medium); sequence > diagrams > > are unwieldy for non-trivial protocols, and they do not explain concepts; > > and finally, animations/videos happen "too fast" and do not offer > > self-paced learning experience.] > > > > All forms of criticisms, comments (and encouragements) welcome :) > > > > Thanks > > Maneesh > > >
