Hi Steve,
Thanks for the response. Since writing the original email, I've
received additional information.
WebHDFS does redirect to you the datanode containing the first block
are you are requesting. This can be abused to query data locality
information but it is inefficient.
Since getFileBloc
1. All the specifics of Hadoop's operations are hidden in the source.
That's a get-out clause of OSS, I know, but sometimes it's the clearest.
2. For webhdfs I suspect it picks a local node with the data -you'd have
to experiment to make sure
3. If webhdfs is missing fetaures, I'm s
Hi all,
I sent an email to user@ but no one there was able to answer my question.
I hope you don't mind me emailing hdfs-dev@ about it.
I'm submitting a proposal to Google Summer of Code to add support for HDFS
to Disco, an Erlang MapReduce system. We're looking at using WebHDFS. As
with Hadoo
