Lowering HDFS replication factor to one for low-traffic workloads
The goal is to reduce HDFS storage cost for a low-traffic workload by lowering the replication factor from the default of three to one. In Apache Hadoop 3.x, the default replication factor is typically three. Setting it to one retains only a single block copy, so a DataNode failure or disk error can make affected blocks unavailable. The NameNode may log bloc