What Is Fsimage in Hadoop
Fsimage Is a File Stored on the Os Filesystem That Contains the Complete Directory Structure (Namespace) of the Hdfs with Details About the Location of the...
FsImage is a file stored on the OS filesystem that contains the complete directory structure (namespace) of the HDFS with details about the location of the data on the Data Blocks and which blocks are stored on which node. This file is used by the NameNode when it is started.
What is Fsimage and EditLog in Hadoop?
The FsImage and the EditLog are central data structures of HDFS. A corruption of these files can cause the HDFS instance to be non-functional. For this reason, the NameNode can be configured to support maintaining multiple copies of the FsImage and EditLog.
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What is Fsimage and EditLogs?
EditLogs is a transaction log that recorde the changes in the HDFS file system or any action performed on the HDFS cluster such as addtion of a new block, replication, deletion etc., It records the changes since the last FsImage was created, it then merges the changes into the FsImage file to create a new FsImage file.
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