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Suresh Srinivas commented on HDFS-1052:
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It is a single cluster made of multiple independent namenodes/namespaces all 
sharing the same set of datanodes.

> HDFS scalability with multiple namenodes
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>                 Key: HDFS-1052
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1052
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: name-node
>    Affects Versions: 0.22.0
>            Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
>            Assignee: Suresh Srinivas
>         Attachments: Block pool proposal.pdf, Mulitple Namespaces5.pdf
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> HDFS currently uses a single namenode that limits scalability of the cluster. 
> This jira proposes an architecture to scale the nameservice horizontally 
> using multiple namenodes.

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