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HDFS(Hadoop Distributed File System)

Published Sun Mar 14 2021



Hadoop’s architecture O.X and 1.X

NameNode

Master of HDFS, directs the slave DataNode daemons to perform low-level I/O tasks

• Keeps track of file splitting into blocks, replication, block location, etc.

  • Secondary NameNode: takes snapshots of the NameNode.

  • DataNode: each slave machine hosts a DataNode daemon.

NameNodes and DataNodes

namenodes_datanodes

Hadoop Cluster Topology

hadoop_cluster




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