I'm doing very basic level setup for a hadoop cluster being deployed. I'm not familiar with Hadoop or its concepts in general. Looking at the deployment checklist, I see a lot of talk about the number of spindles and the mount point of spindles. When someone refers to a spindle, are they talking about the number of physical hard disk drives in the server?
Yes, a spindle refers to a single physical hard disk drive. As a side note spindle's are generally applicable to SATA & SAS not for SSD's.
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