Managing the MapR NFS Service
Provides an overview of managing the NFS service on a licensed cluster.
The MapR NFS service lets you access data on a licensed MapR cluster using the NFS protocol:
- Community Edition license: one NFS node allows you to access your cluster as a standard POSIX-compliant filesystem.
- Enterprise Edition or Enterprise Database Edition license: multiple NFS servers allow each node to mount its own MapR filesystem on NFS enabled with VIPs for high availability (HA) and load balancing.
You can mount the MapR
cluster using NFS, and use standard shell scripting to read and write live data on the
cluster. NFS access to cluster data can be faster than accessing the same data with the
hadoop
commands. To mount the cluster using NFS from a client
machine, see Accessing Data with NFS v3.