Thanks guys, That makes more sense to me now.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Dhruba Borthakur <dhr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The number is just an adhoc number. The policy is not to put too many block > files in the same directory because some local filesystems behave badly if > the number of files in the same directory exceed a certain value. > > -dhruba > > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Thanh Do <than...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > can anyone explain to me while do HDFS has the policy > > to store 64 block files in a single sub directory? > > and if the number of block files increase, > > it just simply creates another subdir and put the block files there. > > > > Thanks > > Thanh > > > > > > -- > Connect to me at http://www.facebook.com/dhruba >
