Hadoop's file system was (mostly) copied from the concepts of Google's old file system.
The original paper is probably the best way to learn about that. http://research.google.com/archive/gfs.html On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Aji Janis <[email protected]> wrote: > I am very new to Hadoop. I am considering setting up a Hadoop cluster > consisting of 5 nodes where each node has 3 internal hard drives. I > understand HDFS has a configurable redundancy feature but what happens if > an entire drive crashes (physically) for whatever reason? How does Hadoop > recover, if it can, from this situation? What else should I know before > setting up my cluster this way? Thanks in advance. > > >
