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 <aji1705@gmail.com> 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.
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