Does HDFS replication increase the total storage on the file system?

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HDFS Mechanism

If each block is saved multiple times for fault tolerance (say 3 times), then does that mean that a 100TB datafile actually takes 300 TB size on the HDFS?

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Yes, that is correct. The data must be stored on 3 different data nodes, and therefore it duplicated 3 times.

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