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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What happens if the block in HDFS is corrupted?

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What does hdfs mean?

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Explain what is a difference between an input split and hdfs block?

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Why do we need hdfs?

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How to split single hdfs block into partitions rdd?

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What is the command for archiving a group of files in hdfs.

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If the source data gets updated every now and then, how will you synchronize the data in hdfs that is imported by sqoop?

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What is throughput? How does HDFS get a good throughput?

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What is the difference between NAS and HDFS?

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What is throughput? How does hdfs provides good throughput?

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What is a Block Scanner in HDFS?

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Does HDFS allow a client to read a file which is already opened for writing in hadoop?

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Explain what is heartbeat in hdfs?

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How one can format Hadoop HDFS?

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Explain how indexing is done in hdfs?

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