Saturday, 2 June 2012

How to mount HDFS using FUSE

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a distributed, scalable filesystem developed as the back-end storage for data-intensive Hadoop applications. As such, HDFS was designed to handle very large files with "write-once-read-many" access model. Not being a full-fledged POSIX compliant filesystem, HDFS cannot be directly mounted by the operating system, and file accesses with HDFS are done via HDFS shell commands.Read more »

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