Actually, No. As you said, I understand that "dfs -put" breaks the data into blocksand then copies to datanodes, but scp do not breaks the data into blocksand , and just copy the data to the namenode!
2008/9/17, Prasad Pingali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > I observe that scp of data to the namenode is faster than actually > putting > into dfs (all nodes coming from same switch and have same ethernet cards, > homogenous nodes)? I understand that "dfs -put" breaks the data into blocks > and then copies to datanodes, but shouldn't that be atleast as fast as > copying data to namenode from a single machine, if not faster? > > thanks and regards, > Prasad Pingali, > IIIT Hyderabad. > > > -- Sorry for my english!! 明 Please help me to correct my english expression and error in syntax
