Edward Capriolo wrote:
It is a little more natural to connect to HDFS from apache tomcat. This will allow you to skip the FUSE mounts and just use the HDFS-API.I have modified this code to run inside tomcat. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopDfsReadWriteExample I will not testify to how well this setup will perform under internet traffic, but it does work.
If someone adds an NIO bridge to hadoop filesystems then it would be easier; leaving you only with the performance issues.
