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Apache Hadoop 3 Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Apache Hadoop 3 Quick Start Guide Learn about big data processing and analytics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788999830
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hadoop 3.0 - Background and Introduction 2. Planning and Setting Up Hadoop Clusters FREE CHAPTER 3. Deep Dive into the Hadoop Distributed File System 4. Developing MapReduce Applications 5. Building Rich YARN Applications 6. Monitoring and Administration of a Hadoop Cluster 7. Demystifying Hadoop Ecosystem Components 8. Advanced Topics in Apache Hadoop 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

HDFS configuration files

Unlike lots of software, Apache Hadoop provides few configuration files that give you flexibility when configuring your Hadoop cluster. Among them are two primary files that influence the overall functioning of HDFS:

  • core-site.xml: This file is primarily used to configure Hadoop IOs; primarily, all of the common settings of HDFS and MapReduce would go here.
  • hdfs-site.xml: This file is the main file for all HDFS configuration. Anything pertaining to NameNode, SecondaryNameNode, or DataNode can be found here.

The core-site file has more than 315 parameters that can be set. We will look at different configurations in the administration section. The full list can be seen here (https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.1.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/core-default.xml). We will cover some important parameters that you may need for configuration:

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