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ECS 3.6.2 Data Access Guide

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File system interaction

When you are interacting directly with ECS HDFS, you might notice the following differences from interaction with the standard HDFS file system:

  • Applications that expect the file system to be an instance of DistributedFileSystem do not work. Applications hardcoded to work against the built-in HDFS implementation require changes to use ECS HDFS.
  • ECS HDFS does not support checksums of the data.
  • When you use the listCorruptFileBlocks function, all blocks are reported as OK because ECS HDFS has no notion of corrupted blocks.
  • The replication factor is always reported as a constant N, where N=1. The data is protected by the ECS SLA, not by Hadoop replication.

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