Moving to hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org. In future, please use the appropriate lists to post your questions, when they are about HDFS: http://hadoop.apache.org/hdfs/mailing_lists.html
You can implement a custom BlockPlacementPolicy in 0.21+ versions of Hadoop, and use that to achieve this. Should be fairly straight forward to do for test purposes -- just take a look at the interface. On 20-Dec-2011, at 10:59 AM, ArunKumar wrote: > Hi guys ! > > I don't want to use automatic placement of HDFS for some reasons. > Can i control the placement of data in Hadoop Cluster nodes ? > Say placing data1 on Node3 , data2 on Node5 ,etc > > Can anyone guide me in this regard ? > > > Arun > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Controlling-the-placement-of-data-in-Hadoop-Cluster-nodes-tp3600410p3600410.html > Sent from the Hadoop lucene-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
