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HDFS famously suffers from a major "small files" issue where if you have lots of files that are less than the block size you i.e. 64MB you will have production instabilities due to excessive namenode memory, read/write performance and disk efficiency.

Also when you lose datanodes you will need to rebalance the data which SeaweedFS apparently does not need to do.



In SeaweedFS, rebalancing data is via admin commands. The data nodes only act as just as storage devices.




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