Re: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-12-01 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
, November 30, 2011 3:28 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: HDFS Explained as Comics Sure, its just a case of how readers interpret it. 1. Client is required to specify block size and replication factor each time 2. Client does not need to worry

RE: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-12-01 Thread Ravi teja ch n v
30, 2011 3:28 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: HDFS Explained as Comics Sure, its just a case of how readers interpret it. 1. Client is required to specify block size and replication factor each time 2. Client does not need to worry about

RE: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-12-01 Thread Ravi teja ch n v
, November 30, 2011 3:28 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: HDFS Explained as Comics Sure, its just a case of how readers interpret it. 1. Client is required to specify block size and replication factor each time 2. Client does not need to worry

Re: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-12-01 Thread maneesh varshney
, November 30, 2011 3:28 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: HDFS Explained as Comics Sure, its just a case of how readers interpret it. 1. Client is required to specify block size and replication factor each time 2. Client does

HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-11-30 Thread maneesh varshney
For your reading pleasure! PDF 3.3MB uploaded at (the mailing list has a cap of 1MB attachments): https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-zw6KHOtbT4MmRkZWJjYzEtYjI3Ni00NTFjLWE0OGItYTU5OGMxYjc0N2M1 Appreciate if you can spare some time to peruse this little experiment of mine to use Comics as a

Re: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-11-30 Thread Dejan Menges
Hi Maneesh, Thanks a lot for this! Just distributed it over the team and comments are great :) Best regards, Dejan On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:28 PM, maneesh varshney mvarsh...@gmail.comwrote: For your reading pleasure! PDF 3.3MB uploaded at (the mailing list has a cap of 1MB attachments):

Re: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-11-30 Thread Prashant Kommireddi
Thanks Maneesh. Quick question, does a client really need to know Block size and replication factor - A lot of times client has no control over these (set at cluster level) -Prashant Kommireddi On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Dejan Menges dejan.men...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Maneesh, Thanks a

Re: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-11-30 Thread maneesh varshney
Hi Prashant Others may correct me if I am wrong here.. The client (org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient) has a knowledge of block size and replication factor. In the source code, I see the following in the DFSClient constructor: defaultBlockSize = conf.getLong(dfs.block.size,

Re: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-11-30 Thread Prashant Kommireddi
Sure, its just a case of how readers interpret it. 1. Client is required to specify block size and replication factor each time 2. Client does not need to worry about it since an admin has set the properties in default configuration files A client could not be allowed to override the

RE: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-11-30 Thread GOEKE, MATTHEW (AG/1000)
30, 2011 3:28 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: HDFS Explained as Comics Sure, its just a case of how readers interpret it. 1. Client is required to specify block size and replication factor each time 2. Client does not need to worry about it since an admin has set

Re: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-11-30 Thread Abhishek Pratap Singh
: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:28 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: HDFS Explained as Comics Sure, its just a case of how readers interpret it. 1. Client is required to specify block size and replication factor each time 2. Client does not need to worry about

Re: HDFS Explained as Comics

2011-11-30 Thread Alexander C.H. Lorenz
is that conversation happening between client / server and not user / client. Matt -Original Message- From: Prashant Kommireddi [mailto:prash1...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:28 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: HDFS Explained as Comics