Apache HDFS Hadoop Distributed File System Interview Questions
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What are the main hdfs-site.xml properties?

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What do you mean by the High Availability of a NameNode in Hadoop HDFS?

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How does HDFS ensure Data Integrity of data blocks stored in HDFS?

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How to remove safemode of namenode forcefully in HDFS?

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Who divides the file into Block while storing inside hdfs in hadoop?

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What are file permissions in HDFS? how does HDFS check permissions for files/directory?

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How one can change Replication factor when Data is already stored in HDFS

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Explain HDFS “Write once Read many” pattern?

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Why is block size set to 128 MB in HDFS?

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What should be the HDFS Block size to get maximum performance from Hadoop cluster?

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What is the importance of dfs.namenode.name.dir in HDFS?

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How one can format Hadoop HDFS?

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Explain what happens if, during the PUT operation, HDFS block is assigned a replication factor 1 instead of the default value 3?

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How to format the HDFS? How frequently it will be done?

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Which one is the master node in HDFS? Can it be commodity hardware?

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Differentiate HDFS & HBase?

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What is Secondary NameNode in Hadoop HDFS?

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Explain how indexing in hdfs is done?

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What is secondary namenode? Is it a substitute or back up node for the namenode?

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What happens when two clients try to access the same file on HDFS?

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How to create Users in hadoop HDFS?

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What is a job tracker?

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Explain the process that overwrites the replication factors in HDFS?

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What are the key features of HDFS?

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What is the procedure to create users in HDFS and how to allocate Quota to them?

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Explain how are file systems checked in hdfs?

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How to Delete directory from HDFS?

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How NameNode tackle Datanode failures in HDFS?

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What is Block in HDFS?

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Characterize data integrity? How does hdfs ensure information integrity of data blocks squares kept in hdfs?

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