Hadoop allows HDFS to be Mounted as NFS

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Renders options for ingesting data into Hadoop

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Hadoop allows HDFS to be Mounted as NFS #2

Open stevenmz opened 10 years ago

stevenmz commented 10 years ago

Accessing HDFS as an NFS mount point is included in the base Hadoop and you do not need to use the MapR distribution to get that functionality: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.3.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsNfsGateway.html

mhausenblas commented 10 years ago

Thanks for pointing this out, Steven. Just to clarify: at the time of writing the statement was correct. I'd suggest you send in a PR to change the wording to your liking. Note that while an NFS gateway is available via HDFS it is not comparable to what we offer in MapR-FS. Please check out http://www.mapr.com/blog/nfs-what-it-and-why-should-we-care for more details …