Thanks Philip. Also how about setting the replication factor at a block level ? Is there support for this in the current version of hdfs ?
- Hrishi ----- Original Message ---- From: Philip Zeyliger <phi...@cloudera.com> To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Sun, November 15, 2009 12:48:43 PM Subject: Re: Dynamically adjusting replication factor for a data block On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:45 AM, <smarthr...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > This needs to be done manually. > Is there a way to do this at runtime i.e. in the java code ? > Sure. It's a method in the FileSystem class: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.18.3/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#setReplication%28org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path,%20short%29 -- Philip
