Federation Router Continuity vs DistCp Maintenance Window for Small-Cluster HDFS Migration
A small Hadoop application needs to move to a new cluster without a service outage, and the team is weighing two documented migration paths. HDFS Router-based Federation preserves a single filesystem view while underlying NameNodes are replaced, avoiding a hard client cutover. DistCp can replicate the dataset to a target cluster while the source stays live,