Can we change the document present in hdfs?

Question Posted / shubham gangwar

Can we change the document present in hdfs?..

Answer / Rakesh Raushan

No, HDFS is a write-once file system. Once a block is written to HDFS, it cannot be modified or deleted unless it is replicated.

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