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Hi dear expert!

i'm wondering is there any way to check file distribution amond nodes in HDFS?

 

some way that allow to check on which nodes place some particular file of dirrectory?

 

thanks!

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If by 'hard to analyse' you mean to parse/process it, you can consider
using the Java API to fetch block location info too:
http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh5/cdh/5/hadoop/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#getFileBlockL...

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You can check the file on NN Web UI's File Browser (shows all block IDs and
their locations), or run 'hdfs fsck /path/to/file -files -blocks -locations'

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Thanks! Hdfs fsck will works, but it's hard to analyze in case of big file. maybe it is other way to get aggregate values?

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If by 'hard to analyse' you mean to parse/process it, you can consider
using the Java API to fetch block location info too:
http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh5/cdh/5/hadoop/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#getFileBlockL...