The document provides an overview of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). It discusses that HDFS is the storage unit of Hadoop and relies on distributed file system principles. It has a master-slave architecture with the NameNode as the master and DataNodes as slaves. HDFS allows files to be broken into blocks which are replicated across DataNodes for fault tolerance. The document outlines the key components of HDFS and how read and write operations work in HDFS.