Why is Reading done in parallel and writing is not in HDFS?



Why is Reading done in parallel and writing is not in HDFS?..

Answer / Lalita Kumari

Reading is done in parallel in HDFS because it's more efficient for the system to read multiple blocks simultaneously. Writing, however, requires exclusive access to the file, so it cannot be performed in parallel.

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