{subsection: HDFS} The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a user space, distributed file system, maintained by the Apache project. The condor_hdfs daemon is a damon which manages the running of the java-based hdfs daemon. See: HadoopDistributedFileSystemModule - -{subsection: Python Bindings} -These python modules provide bindings with the HTCondor C++ libraries. These are a straightforward and more efficient alternate to using the SOAP bindings from python. -See: http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/latest-dev/8_6Python_Bindings.html