NickName:user1290942 Ask DateTime:2015-02-03T05:35:46 Does using Standby Masters with ZooKeeper with hadoop prevent single point of failure In hadoop namenodes are a single point of failure. If you use a spark along side hadoop does Zookeeper take care of the single point of failure hadoop would normally have on its own? Or does it still rely on the namenode for the hdfs input Copyright Notice:Content Author:「user1290942」,Reproduced under the CC 4.0 BY-SA copyright license with a link to the original source and this disclaimer.Link to original article:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28287201/does-using-standby-masters-with-zookeeper-with-hadoop-prevent-single-point-of-fa Answers