What is default replication factor in Hadoop?
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What is default replication factor in Hadoop HDFS?
What is the minimum replication factor and what is maximum replication factor?
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Replication factor means how many copies of hdfs block should be copied (replicated) in Hadoop cluster.
Default replication factor is = 3
Minimum replication factor that can be set = 1
Maximum replication factor that can be set = 512
One can set the replication factor in hdfs-site xml file as follows:
<property>
<name>dfs.replication</name>
<value>512</value>
</property>
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