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What is Block in HDFS?



What is Block in HDFS?..

Answer / Sunil Kumar Bhagat

In HDFS, a block refers to the smallest unit of data storage. When a file is stored in HDFS, it's divided into blocks and distributed across multiple DataNodes for reliability and performance. By default, each block has a size of 128 MB.

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