Have just started getting familiar with Hadoop & HDFS. Reading Tom White's book.
The book describes an example related to HDFS block size. Here's a verbatim excerpt from the book "If the seek time is around 10 ms, and the transfer rate is 100 MB/s, then to make the seek time 1% of the transfer time, we need to make the block size around 100 MB." I can't seem to understand how we arrived at the fact that block size shold be 100MB. Could someone please help me understand? Thanks Viva
