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How can i access different hdfs filesystems?


Asked by Ayaan Rasmussen on Dec 03, 2021 FAQ



A HDFS located on a different cluster can be accessed with a HDFS connection that specified the host (and port) of the namenode of that other filesystem, like hdfs://namenode_host:8020/user/johndoe/ . DSS will access the files on all HDFS filesystems with the same user name (even in multi-user security mode )
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Although every filesystem has a concept of block, the concept of blocks in HDFS is very different when compared to the blocks in traditional filesystem. Next, your filesystem should have a distributed view of the files or blocks in your cluster which is not possible with your local filesystem which is ext4.
Indeed, HDFS stores the data in the form of the block where the size of each data block is 128MB in size which is configurable means you can change it according to your requirement in hdfs-site.xml file in your Hadoop directory. It’s easy to access the files stored in HDFS. HDFS also provide high availibility and fault tolerance.
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Furthermore, the command bin/hdfs dfs -help command-name displays more detailed help for a command. These commands support most of the normal files system operations like copying files, changing file permissions, etc. It also supports a few HDFS specific operations like changing replication of files.
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However, if the fs.defaultFS of your cluster points to S3, an unqualified URI will similarly point to S3. A HDFS located on a different cluster can be accessed with a HDFS connection that specified the host (and port) of the namenode of that other filesystem, like hdfs://namenode_host:8020/user/johndoe/ .