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#Managing Hadoop Compatible Storage
GlusterFS provides compatibility for Apache Hadoop and it uses the
standard file system APIs available in Hadoop to provide a new storage
option for Hadoop deployments. Existing MapReduce based applications can
use GlusterFS seamlessly. This new functionality opens up data within
Hadoop deployments to any file-based or object-based application.
##Advantages
The following are the advantages of Hadoop Compatible Storage with
GlusterFS:
- Provides simultaneous file-based and object-based access within
Hadoop.
- Eliminates the centralized metadata server.
- Provides compatibility with MapReduce applications and rewrite is
not required.
- Provides a fault tolerant file system.
###Pre-requisites
The following are the pre-requisites to install Hadoop Compatible
Storage :
- Java Runtime Environment
- getfattr - command line utility
##Installing, and Configuring Hadoop Compatible Storage
See the detailed instruction set at https://forge.gluster.org/hadoop/pages/ConfiguringHadoop2
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