How do you define "block" in HDFS?



How do you define "block" in HDFS?..

Answer / Brijesh Kumar Mishra

In HDFS, a block is the smallest unit of data storage. Each file is divided into multiple blocks and distributed across various DataNodes within the cluster. By default, the size of each block is 128 MB, but it can be customized during the configuration process.

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