Customizing HDFS
You can use the dfs.user.home.base.dir property to customize the
HDFS home directory. In addition, you can configure properties to control the size of the
directory that holds the NameNode edits directory.
Scaling Namespaces and Optimizing Data Storage
Also available as:
- Introduction
- Scaling namespaces
- Optimizing data storage
- Balancing data across disks of a DataNode
- Increasing storage capacity with HDFS erasure coding
- Increasing storage capacity with HDFS compression
- Setting archival storage policies
- Balancing data across an HDFS cluster
- Optimizing performance
- Using the NFS Gateway for accessing HDFS
- Data storage metrics
- APIs for accessing HDFS