Devi, The libhdfs is purely a client library and hence you require it only on the node where you wish to consume it. Hence, "client node" is sufficient.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Hadoop <kpala...@att.net> wrote: > Harsh, > > Thanks for the response.I was able to install it. > > Should I just install it in clients hone alone or in the namenode and data > nodes too? > > Thanks,Devi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 16, 2012, at 9:41 PM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> Devi, >> >> [Moving question to cdh-u...@cloudera.org, bcc'd hdfs-user@]. >> >> The libhdfs is installable via package "hadoop-0.20-libhdfs" (sudo yum >> install hadoop-0.20-libhdfs.x86_64 for example). >> >> The package installs the following files so you can include/link globally: >> /usr/include/hdfs.h >> /usr/lib64/libhdfs.la >> /usr/lib64/libhdfs.so >> /usr/lib64/libhdfs.so.0 >> /usr/lib64/libhdfs.so.0.0.0 >> >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Devi Kumarappan <kpala...@att.net> wrote: >>> I am currently using CDUH3 distibution and I could nto find libhdfs in the >>> distribution. >>> >>> Where could I get the libhdfs.so and the header file ? >>> >>> Thanks, Devi >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Harsh J -- Harsh J