Chapter 2. Exploring HDFS

In this chapter, we'll take a look at the following recipes:

• Loading data from a local machine to HDFS
• Exporting HDFS data to a local machine
• Changing the replication factor of an existing file in HDFS
• Setting the HDFS block size for all the files in a cluster
• Setting the HDFS block size for a specific file in a cluster
• Enabling transparent encryption for HDFS
• Importing data from another Hadoop cluster
• Recycling deleted data from trash to HDFS
• Saving compressed data in HDFS