Re: Who splits the file into blocks

[Sai Sai]

Here is my understanding about putting a file into hdfs:
A client contacts name node and gets the location of blocks where it needs to 
put the blocks in data nodes.
But before this how does the name node know how many blocks it needs to split a 
file into.
Who splits the file is it the client itself or is it the name node. 
Since the file is never written to the name node so there is no chance it is 
the name node.
Please clarify.
Thanks
Sai