Hadoop’s org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem is generic class to access and manage HDFS files/directories located in distributed environment. File’s content stored inside datanode with multiple equal large sizes of blocks (e.g. 64 MB), and namenode keep the information of those blocks and Meta information. FileSystem read and stream by accessing blocks in sequence order. FileSystem first get blocks information from NameNode then open, read and close one by one. It opens first blocks once it complete then close and open next block. HDFS replicate the block to give higher reliability and scalability and if client is one of the datanode then it tries to access block locally if fail then move to other cluster datanode. Continue reading “Hadoop HDFS JAVA API” →