* The Secondary Namenode is a helper to the primary Namenode.
* The Secondary is responsible for supporting periodic checkpoints
* of the HDFS metadata. The current design allows only one Secondary
* Namenode per HDFs cluster.
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* The Secondary Namenode is a daemon that periodically wakes
* up (determined by the schedule specified in the configuration),
* triggers a periodic checkpoint and then goes back to sleep.
* The Secondary Namenode uses the ClientProtocol to talk to the
* primary Namenode.