Re: HDFS data block clarification

[Owen O'Malley]

The last block of an HDFS block only occupies the required space. So a  
4k file only consumes 4k on disk.

-- Owen
On Apr 2, 2009, at 18:44, javateck javateck <javat...@gmail.com> wrote:

 Can someone tell whether a file will occupy one or more blocks? for
example, the default block size is 64MB, and if I save a 4k file to  
HDFS,
will the 4K file occupy the whole 64MB block alone? so in this case,  
do I do
need to configure the block size to 10k if most of my files are less  
than
10K?

thanks,