Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the primary storage system used by Hadoop applications.

It makes multiple copies of data blocks and distributes them on nodes throughout a cluster to enable reliable, extremely rapid calculations.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Better security.
· HBase (append/hsynch/hflush, and security).
· webhdfs (with full support for security).
· Performance enhanced access to local files for HBase.
· Other performance enhancements, bug fixes, and features.