3. What is HDFS?

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the primary storage system used by Hadoop applications. HDFS is a distributed file system that provides high-performance access to data across Hadoop clusters.

HDFS uses a master/slave architecture in which one device (the master) controls one or more other devices (the slaves). The HDFS cluster consists of a single NameNode and a master server manages the file system namespace and regulates access to files.

HDFS typically is deployed on low-cost commodity hardware, server failures are common. The file system is designed to be highly fault-tolerant, however, by facilitating the rapid transfer of data between compute nodes and enabling Hadoop systems to continue running if a node fails. That decreases the risk of catastrophic failure, even in the event that numerous nodes fail.

When we copy data to HDFS, it breaks down the information into multiple pieces and distributes them to different nodes in a cluster, allowing for parallel. The file system also copies each piece of data multiple times and distributes the copies to individual nodes, placing at least one copy on a different server rack than the others. As a result, the data on nodes that crash can be found elsewhere within a cluster, which allows processing to continue while the failure is resolved.

HDFS is built to support applications with large data sets, including individual files that reach into the terabytes. It uses a master/slave architecture, with each cluster consisting of a single NameNode that manages file system operations and supporting DataNodes that manage data storage on individual compute nodes.

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