Namenode will have trivial amount of data stored in journal/fsimage.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:21 PM, WangRamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks, besides the checksum data is there anything else? Data in name
> node?
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> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:14:06 -0800
> Subject: Re: Is there an additional overhead when storing data in HDFS?
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> HDFS uses 4GB for the file + checksum data.
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> Default is for every 512 bytes of data, 4 bytes of checksum are stored. In
> this case additional 32MB data.
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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:00 PM, WangRamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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> Hi All
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> I'm wondering if there is an additional overhead when storing some data
> into HDFS? For example, I have a 2GB file, the replicate factor of HDSF is
> 2, when the file is uploaded to HDFS, should HDFS use 4GB to store it or
> more then 4GB to store it? If it takes more than 4GB space, why?
>
> Thanks
> Ramon
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