https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-reduce-the-replication-factor-in-a-HDFS-directory-and/m-p/189172#M151265 <P>So eventually, -setrep 2 stops the process and spawn another process (deleting the third copy) right? Is there any way to stop the cluster removing the third copy? I'm trying to reduce the cpu utilization.</P> Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:24:54 GMT nvsajeeva 2017-07-19T16:24:54Z