Hi Franck, This is not HDFS's intended use case and I do not think it will solve your problem very successfully.
You're probably better off looking at some other technologies. -Todd On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Franck Besnard <besn0...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > I'm looking at HDFS as a potential canditate to store files shared by few > hundreds of users. > This idea would be to mount local drive directly linked to the HDFS cloud. > The datanodes would be deployed on each desktops which means up to 500 DNs. > Now that said browsing the web it seems that : > > - HDFS is design to store large files (block at a minimum of 64Mb) > - HDFS has a SPOC with the NN > - HDFS security seems to be very limited > > In such a situation, the average file size would be 500KB. So i would think > of using a 1MB block. > Does anybody have experience running such a configuration ? Feedback ? > Any opinion ? Should i compltely drop that idea ? > Would the NN accept 500 mounts through FUSE ? > Thx & brgds > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
