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Explain the difference between an inputsplit and a block?

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Explain the difference between an inputsplit and a block?..

Answer / Ram Dwivedi

In Hadoop, a block is a unit of data storage, while an InputSplit is a logical division of data for processing. An InputSplit can span multiple blocks.

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