On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Wojciech Langiewicz
<wlangiewicz@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> What might be causing situation where I have about 5TB in HDFS and hadoop
> tmp dirs have about 16TB in total?
>

If indeed this is the block data of your HDFS files, then this makes perfect
sense. HDFS by default replicates every block 3 times, so ~5TB used in HDFS
is ~15TB raw on disk.

Aaron