On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:55:30PM -0400, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > My personal experience with getting large amounts of data from local > storage to HDFS has been suboptimal compared to something more raw,
If you're writing 3 copies of everything on 3 different nodes, then sure, it's a lot slower than writing 1 copy. The benefit you get from this extra up-front expense is resilience. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
