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High-level Architecture
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This lesson gives a brief overview of HDFS’s architecture.

HDFS architecture

All files stored in HDFS are broken into multiple fixed-size blocks, where each block is 128 megabytes in size by default (configurable on a per-file basis). Each file stored in HDFS consists of two parts: the actual file data and the metadata, i.e., how many block parts the file has, their locations and the total file size, etc. HDFS cluster primarily consists of a NameNode that manages the file system metadata and DataNodes that store the actual data.

  • All blocks of a file are of the same size exc

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