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Posted to hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org by Vidur Goyal <vi...@students.iiit.ac.in> on 2010/06/08 15:50:22 UTC

overwriting a file in hdfs

Hi,

Whenever i overwrite a file in hdfs , the block ID's are changed. Old
blocks are neither listed in .Trash or anywhere in the hdfs. Can somebody
explain what happens to the old blocks.

Thanks,
vidur

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