What is formatting of the dfs?



What is formatting of the dfs?..

Answer / Shashank Saxena

Formatting of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) involves creating a new file system on a set of machines and initializing its metadata on NameNode. It can be done using the 'hadoop namenode -format' command.

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