what is meaning Replication factor?



what is meaning Replication factor?..

Answer / Sagar Kumar Jaiswal

In Apache Hadoop's HDFS, the replication factor refers to the number of copies of a data block that are stored across multiple DataNodes in the cluster. This is done for fault tolerance and data availability.

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