Sunday, 18 August 2013

Does formatting the HDFS filesystem remove my data?

Does formatting the HDFS filesystem remove my data?

I'm starting to learn Hadoop. If I want to format the HDFS filesystem I
need to execute
bin/hadoop namenode -format
Does it mean that it will format my filesystem, losing everything I have
there? Or will it just create a kind of big "virtual file" over the local
filesystem?

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