+1 for increasing it to higher value by defaut (128/256MB) Most of the deployment which I worked are configured with 256MB and working well. ________________________________________ From: Eli Collins [e...@cloudera.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:27 AM To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: [DISCUSS] Increasing the default block size
Heads up - I filed HDFS-4053 to increase the default HDFS block size in trunk for v3. It's been 64mb forever, and most production clusters I'm aware of use a higher value, it's worth considering changing the default. Thanks, Eli
