I am indeed a happy man...our data acq. systems can see and interact with the compute grid proper so configuring nodes outside the grid to speak with HDFS should be reasonably straightforward. C G
Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/20/07 5:52 PM, "C G" wrote: > Ted, when you say "copy in the distro" do you need to include the > configuration files from the running grid? You don't need to actually start > HDFS on this node do you? You are correct. You only need the config files (and the hadoop script helps make things easier). > If I'm following this approach correctly, I would want to have an "xfer > server" whose job it is to essentially run dfs -copyFromLocal on all > inbound-to-HDFS data. Once I'm certain that my data has copied correctly, I > can delete the local files on the xfer server. Yes. > This is great news, as my current system wastes a lot of time copying data > from data acquisition servers to the master node. If I can copy to HDFS > directly from ny acquisition servers then I am a happy guy.... You are a happy guy. If your acquisition systems can see all of your datanodes. --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.