Apache Hadoop 1.x does not have Federated NameNodes. It is however present in the Apache Hadoop 2.x releases. NameNodes can indeed scale with federated setups, but for faster bulk processing it is still not a good idea to keep around tiny files when you can have them bigger.
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:26 PM, visioner sadak <visioner.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello experts, > > Need some help, does the latest stable release 1.0.3 has hadoop federation > (in which we can have multiple name nodes), can the problem of large small > file uploads(http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/02/the-small-files-problem/) > be solved if we use this version with hadoop federation as we get name nodes > in clusters -- Harsh J
