The HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) filesystem is a Java-based filesystem, which stores large files (an ideal file size is a multiple of 64 MB[8]), across multiple machines. It achieves reliability by replicating the data across multiple hosts.
For more information, have a look at <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/hdfs_design.html">the official documentation</a>
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