Block placement in HDFS

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Block placement in HDFS

by dennis81 :: Rate this Message:

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Hi everyone,

I was wondering whether it is possible to control the placement of the blocks of a file in HDFS. Is it possible to instruct HDFS about which nodes will hold the block replicas?

Thanks!